How to weave chair seat

I had a client with a family heirloom that wanted nothing more than to have the chair seat, that went with the set I was painting, re-weaved. This client knew…

How-to article on identifying woven seat patterns -- at least five different types of woven chair seat patterns and designs.

Hitchcock chairs, made by the Hitchcock Chair Company in Conn., traditionally use rush seats, which are handwoven seats made of leaves from the common cattail plant. If the seat of your chair has degraded over time, you may need to replace the original seat with a new one.

Weave Chair Seats With Paracord: It's fairly easy to find old wooden chairs with broken out seat bottoms. Often the chair frame is solid, but no one is interested in reweaving the rush bottom. When I found 5 old chairs in the rafters of a barn I decided to hack them with paracord!…

Welcome to my fabric chair seat weaving post! About a year ago, I decided that I had too many ladder back chairs in my shop, Dwellings. Most needed work and because I have an affinity for old chairs, they kept multiplying. One day I decided to try my hand at weaving a seat, but I began with a small stool. Before: Poor thing After: My first attempt It wasn't great, but when one of our favorite customers purchased it, that inspired me, and I began the journey of fabric weaving not having a…

A few months ago my beautiful mother-in-law passed away very suddenly. She had many beautiful pieces of furniture -- mementos of her trave...

When he makes chairs, David Johnson blends the best techniques learned in a career studying and restoring chairs with woven seats.

Seat weaving with tape. To estimate the quantity of 1″ wide tape needed per chair seat, multiply widest width by the widest length and divide by nine. Standard size seats usually require 25 to 30 yards of material.

Rope or Hemp Bottom Chair - I found this old neglected chair on it's way to the garbage and just had to save it The wood was so dry, West Texas is so very hard