A. Don’t despair; chair-caning is not a lost art. There are two kinds of caning, says Cathryn Peters, who runs a Web site dedicated to seat weaving and wicker repair (wickerwoman.com). The original ...

Viola started studying her mother’s chair caning book, “Repairing Chair Seats with Cane,” published by Penn State. She learned the simple and effective seven-step method. Viola insists it’s easy to ...

WESTFIELD – From caning chairs to hosting craft classes, the owners of the Seat Weaver have continued an upward climb in success that prompted a move to a bigger location just a year-and-a-half after ...

Lin Golombosky never planned on caning chairs for a living. The Willington resident had worked for 10 years as a union carpenter, a job she describes as the best years of her life. As time passed, ...

A detail shot of a finished handwoven rush seat for a chair restored by Louise Herriott at her home in Dallas on Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Louise Herriott does caning and makes handwoven rush seats ...

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. — Liz Cottrell, a Tiverton English teacher by day, turned her penchant for chair caning into a side business. Caning is the method — and lost art some would argue — of hand ...

Chairs with woven seats have been under us for thousands of years. In ancient China, woven furniture was made from rattan vines, and in Egypt, dried rushes. Today, both natural and man-made materials ...