Seat Weaving Books and Booklets

widessbook The Complete Guide to Chair Caning
$24.95
The Complete Guide to Chair Caning by Jim Widess. Excellent attention to detail with new features: how to install cane webbing in cabinet doors, speakers and as ventilation for boats. Book includes how to cane chairs, weave rush seats, splint seats, repair wicker and bamboo furniture, including how to make those fancy corner knots on rattan furniture when you do a repair. Click for more details.
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handcanesmall.jpg Chair Caning by Marian Sober
$3.95
Chair Caning Booklet by Marian Sober, illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet when you're weaving a seat with drilled holes in frame. If the woven part of the seat is 12" or less, one 270' coil is the amount you need.
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splint_seat_tran_small.gif Splint Weaving Booklet
$3.95
By Marian Sober, illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet for re-weaving chairs in herringbone pattern with 1/2" flat reeds. The pattern is herringbone. It'll take about 1 and a half lbs. of reed to weave an average seat.
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fiberrushchair12.jpg Fiber Rush Seatweaving Booklet
$3.95
Booklet by Marian Sober, illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet for fiber rush seatweaving in the pattern at left. Also has all instructions to adjust for chairseats that are not perfect squares. This booklet is also the same pattern to be used for weaving SEAGRASS seats. It takes a 2 lb coil of fiber rush to weave one seat, or 2 lbs of seagrass.
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shakertapebooklet.jpg Shaker Tape Seatweaving Booklet
$3.95
How to weave Shaker Tape Seats on chairs with rails.
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fingerlakesfan Finger Lakes Fan Weave Booklet
$3.95
Finger Lakes Fan Weave booklet by Parkinson, illustrated how-to's. Suitable for porch chairs, dining room chairs. Use wide binder cane or 3/16 to 1/4 flat oval. It takes one 500' hank of binder cane or one lb of reed to weave the average seat.
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porchweave New England Porchweave booklet
$3.95
New England Porchweave booklet by Parkinson, illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet when re-weaving a porch rocker type in plain-weave with 1/4" Wide Binding Cane or narrow flat reeds. It takes one 500 ft coil of binder cane to weave a porch seat. If the back of the chair needs weavin too, the back will require 1 and a half coils of binder cane. For reed, get 3 lb to do the seat and back.
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herringboneseatweavemini.jpg Herringbone Weave Booklet
$3.95
Herringbone Seatweaving Booklet by Parkinson, illustrated how-to's. Suitable for all Binder Cane widths, and Flat Oval reed in 3/16" or 1/4" width. Takes one hank, coil or pound for one average seat. Also called "twill weave" in some parts of the U.S.
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