WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM–Today we have a wonderful guest blogger here on Weavin’ Wicker Woman. Richard Saunders is a man that hardly needs an introduction since he’s already so well known in the antique wicker furniture industry. I’ve followed Richard through all his books, but I also remember seeing him on the Good Morning America television show back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Richard […]
Wicker furniture author and appraiser, Richard Saunders is offering for sale, brand new copies of WICKER FURNITURE: A GUIDE TO RESTORING AND COLLECTING (Crown Publishers; 1990) until his supply runs out. This is a 245-page, large format paperback book, which includes an 8-page color photo section, hundreds of black and white photos and lots of fascinating information on antique wicker furniture. The history of the […]
I’ve been going through some of the thousands of hard copy antique wicker furniture pictures I have in photo storage boxes, to share with you here on the blog. Today’s subject is a real cutie from the 1890s, it’s a totally woven Victorian reed wicker highchair. This reed wicker highchair has a wooden tray that can be flipped over to the back when you take […]
In this post, I am resurrecting a regular series I began in 2009, talking about one specific topic–Antique Wicker Furniture. Wednesday seemed to be a good day of the week to focus on this topic and so began the Wednesday Wicker Wisdom series of posts. Here are a few pictures showing some pieces from the various eras of the Wicker Furniture Industry that began right […]
I thought you might enjoy seeing some photos of the antique wicker furniture repair process that goes on when giving these grand old pieces some TLC. Enjoy these “before” and “after” shots and some “during”! Rarely did I take a picture after the piece was either stained or painted, for some odd reason. Guess I just wanted to highlight the restoration and wasn’t concerned with […]
Do you have some antique wicker furniture and you’d like someone to tell you what it’s worth? Or maybe you want information about when it was made and by whom? Or how about learning what the material is that was used when it was created? Then you can clean and care for your wicker furniture properly, once you know what the material is. Well, since […]
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