Chair Caning & Seat Weaving Handbook E-Book

Skills Institute Press

• Herausgeber: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 36

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

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. Even beginners will enjoy success with easy-to-understand, illustrated, step-by-step instructions. Projects include cane seats, Shaker tape seats, and rush seats.

Leseprobe

© 2012 by Skills Institute Press LLC

Published and distributed in North America by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., East Petersburg, PA.

Chair Caning & Seat Weaving Handbook is an original work, first published in 2012.

Portions of text and art previously published by and reproduced under license with Direct Holdings Americas Inc.

Special thanks to Shaker Workshops for providing the photos here and the photos indicated here and here. To learn more, please visit www.shakerworkshops.com.

Special thanks to Planet Art/Chair Repair for providing the photos indicated here and here. Photos by Tipton Gentry of Portable Onsite Photography. To learn more, please visit http://gochairrepair.com.

Special thanks to Brandy Clements, Dave Klingler, and Tara Fitzkee for their generous assistance in providing technical advice for this title.

Print ISBN 978-1-56523-556-4

eISBN 978-1-63741-551-1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chair Caning & Seat Weaving Handbook.

pages cm

Summary: "This book will detail the basics of making chair seats, from weaving with cloth tape, rush, or cane to simple upholstery with cloth or leather. Also covers chair repair"-- Provided by publisher.

1. Furniture making. 2. Chair caning. 3. Rush-work. 4. Furniture making. I. Skills Institute Press. II.

Title: Chair Caning and Seat Weaving Handbook.

TT199.C36 2012

684.08--dc23

2011053239

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Because working with cane, rush, Shaker tape, and other materials inherently includes the risk of injury and damage, this book cannot guarantee that creating the projects in this book is safe for everyone. For this reason, this book is sold without warranties or guarantees of any kind, expressed or implied, and the publisher and the author disclaim any liability for any injuries, losses, or damages caused in any way by the content of this book or the reader’s use of the tools needed to complete the projects presented here. The publisher and the author urge all readers to thoroughly review each project and to understand the use of all tools before beginning any project.

Contents

Introduction

Woven Seat Patterns

Chapter 1:Cane Seats

Making the Caning Frame

Weaving the Cane

Prewoven Cane

Chapter 2:Tape Seats

Weaving a Tape Seat

The Versatility of Shaker Tape

Chapter 3:Rush Seats

Rush Seat

Rushing a Chair Seat

INTRODUCTION

Seats

The seat is the reason for a chair’s existence. Backs and arms may be optional—even legs—but every chair needs a seat. Over the centuries, chair makers have settled on many seat styles to suit a variety of applications and uses. In this book, you will find techniques for making three types of seats: a woven cane seat, a rush seat, and a tape seat.

The practice of weaving chair seats has a long history. Western chair makers have used cane to make seats for chairs and stools since the sixteenth century, while the Egyptians were making rush seats more than 3,000 years ago. Although caning a seat requires few tools (here), it is a time-consuming process that demands patience and practice. Using a caning kit for practice is an excellent option. Weaving a typical cane seat will take at least 12 hours. A less time-consuming option is prewoven caning, which is wedged into a groove around the seat frame, as shown here. Prewoven cane can only be used if your seat contains a pre-cut groove, or if you cut a groove to house the cane into the chair seat.

Today, rush seats are generally woven with twisted kraft paper rather than natural rush—except on reproduction pieces. Sold in various widths and colors, fiber rush seats are very durable. Rushing a seat, as shown here, is an easier technique to master than caning, and is an excellent way to span the seat frame of a stick chair.

Tape became popular as a woven seat material after 1830. A woven, cotton material, tape does not wear as quickly as materials like cane and rush. Because tape seats are usually made following a simple woven pattern, they can be produced much faster than cane or rush seats, which involve more complex processes and patterns.