A couple weeks ago a friend gave me a set of eight modern painted chairs. They had seats woven with Danish cord in a traditional pattern, four chairs were painted green and four, yellow. What […]
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For years before the smoked rattan reed was invented, we wicker repair pros had to stain match the natural whiteish reed color to a dark, stained wicker piece. So once the new smoked reed came
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There’s a brand new page on WickerWoman.com about the steps and techniques used in the restoration and repair of antique wicker furniture. It’s called, Wicker Repair Process and can be found in the Helpful Resources
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We “lost” the Antique Wicker Furniture #101, History, Repair, Tips page a while ago and just now discovered it again under “hidden pages.” For some reason either during an update or during a revision, it
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Aren’t these just the cutest pictures of babies posing on the fancy Victorian wicker photography studio furniture? All of these wicker posing chairs have elaborate scrolls, curlicues, bird cage legs and Star of David cane
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Did you know that “chair caning” is only one of several different design patterns or techniques of chair seat weaving or chair seating? And that there are many, many different kinds of materials to use
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This lovely little heavily embellished wicker woman’s chair is an authentic Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company lady’s or photographer’s chair. I’ll show you some of what I had to do to restore it to its nearly
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Many years ago now, way before the invention of cell phones with a built-in camera, I discovered a bunch of old 3 1/2″ floppy disks while cleaning up in the studio and unpacking some boxes
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