Product Description: Restore and repair antique or worn-out chairs with this handy guide. Learn how to make repairs yourself and skip the high costs of professional craftsmen. With clear demonstrations of weaving patterns and processes, this book will guide you through preparing your chair, gathering tools, weaving, and finishing...read more

Product Description: Jim Widess, co-author of the bestselling The Caner's Handbook and a top authority in the field, presents a caning guide that readers will treasure for years to come. With the help of his amazingly detailed instructions and illuminating color photographs, even novices can fix virtually any piece of cane or wicker furniture; at the same time, professionals or collectors will value the hundreds of expert, time-tested tips Widess has amassed during three decades of work...read more

Product Description: Cane, Rush and Willow describes basic techniques that are required to complete a range of typical restoration projects using materials from hedges, forests and recycling depots. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Learn the all-but-forgotten skill of restoring chair seats with the help of these plain-and-simple instructions. Start with a bundle of fresh cane and, using ordinary cutting tools, quickly master the simple techniques of threading, doubling, and setting -- all clearly illustrated...read more

Product Description: The continuing need for the restoration of old and antique chairs has renewed interest in the oldest of handicrafts - weaving chair seats. This concise and practical book describes and illustrates all the tools, materials and techniques required to re-seat a wide range of chairs...read more

Product Description: Building a willow chair will be one of your most satisfying experiences. There is nothing like siting back in a chair you have just built after hours of sawing and hammering. Friends, neighbors and family will be vying to see who sits in it next...read more

Product Description: Give life to old cane furniture as well as weaving seats and backs for new pieces. Traditional techniques and new shortcuts make caning with wicker, rattan, raw-hide, and other materials easy. Useful charts detail how much fiber to buy and what standard lengths are available...read more

Explains how to work with traditional techniques, materials, and finishes for weaving chair seats from cane, rush, rope, and splint

Describes, illustrates, and comment on methods of restoration and replacement of various seatings

Provides step-by-step instructions for weaving chair seats from cane, rush, Hong Kong grass, rope, twine, and splints, and discusses useful equipment and supplies

Product Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life...read more

Clear diagrams, photographs, and instructions offer guidance in mastering traditional and modern techniques for weaving strong and attractive cane, rush, willow, seagrass, and cord seats