Tuesday Tip of the Day–This Tuesday’s Tip is about weaving a paper rush seat, beginning the first step of weaving, filling in the gussets or side rails. The old way of attaching the short strands …
MONDAY MENTION–I was surfing around trying to find some more chair caning blogs like this one that I blogged about before, when I discovered that a favorite caning supply company, Peerless Rattan Company has a …
A while back I made a post about paper rush seatweaving and the perils of not stuffing the seats with cardboard or something else to protect the strands. I was having problems with my …
TUESDAY CHAIR CANING TIPS–You have seat weaving problems, I’ll try to solve them for you! THE PROBLEM: Have you ever seen a broken paper rush seat like this before with all the strands cut across …
Here’s a Blast From the Past for you! These pictures were taken during a paper fibre rush footstool and natural hand-twisted bulrush footstool classes in 2002 at the East Troy Basketry Shop in East Troy, …
Have you ever been faced with dumping a cane chair in the trash because it was too badly damaged to repair and re-cane as original? Well, Randy Keeling, one of the chair caners that participates …