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Caning & Rushing
A wide variety of techniques have been developed over the past 2000+ years that
use various reeds and woods as weaving media for chair seats and backs. Although
it sometimes seems as if this is a dying art, we still provide comprehensive caning
services:
Hand-woven caning of chair seats and backs in traditional patterns
You can identify hand-woven caning by looking at the bottom or back of the
wooden frame surrounding the cane. If you can see a series of holes drilled
through the frame with strands of cane running through them, you have a
hand-woven piece.
As the name implies, the caning material is woven, one strand at a time, over
and under alternating strands to produce the characteristic caning pattern
Insertion of pre-woven cane
You can identify pre-woven caning by looking at the top or front of the
wooden frame surrounding the cane. If you see the caning material ending at a
channel into which a thick piece of reed has been inserted, you have a pre-woven
piece.
The caning material has been woven into a sheet by a machine. It is sold in a
variety of cane sizes that produce various hole patterns.
Binder cane weaving in herringbone, diamond and other patterns
These techniques use caning that is 3" and
wider to produce interesting patterns across the caning field. These pieces are woven by hand, one
strand at a time. Both the top and bottom of the piece should show the same
pattern.
Hickory or Ash splinting
Similar to wide binder caning, hickory or ash splints are cut from
d " to 1" wide and are used to weave
patterns.
Rush fiber weaving
In the very old days, bull rush leaves were used to weave chair seats. This
material, although still available, is rarely used. Instead,
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material is now made from long strands of Kraft paper (same stuff used to make
paper grocery bagsB remember them?)
Twisted to form a rope-like material, it is woven into the same characteristic pattern
traditionally seen when rush leaves were used.
Leather or pressed fiber seats
The wooden frames of some chair seats are filled with embossed leather or
pressed fiber panels. When these decorative panels become aged or damaged we can
replace them with new panels that are embossed with traditional drsigns.
To see some of the pieces we have caned,
CLICK HERE.
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