PVC Pipe Soaking Tubes
Are you at a loss for a good way to soak willow rods and chair cane webbing or sheet cane? Here’s a great tip to help with your chair caning and willow basketweaving projects. PVC […]
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Antler Basket Raffle at Art Group Fundraiser — Monday Mention
Here’s a picture of the fallow deer antler floor magazine basket that I made and will be raffled off tomorrow night at the “Western Night at the Comet.” The fun-filled nights event is a fundraiser
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Chair Caning Forum Going Strong–Friday Feature
*Update Note: After 15 years of serving this tight-knit community of chair seat weavers, I had to close the chair caning forum in 2019 because the platform host went out of business. We had a
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Danish Cord Chair Seats-Wednesday Wicker Wisdom
A couple weeks ago a friend gave me a set of eight modern painted chairs. They had seats woven with Danish cord in a traditional pattern, four chairs were painted green and four, yellow. What
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Shipping woven chair seats for repair–Tuesday Tips
Need to have your favorite cane or rush chair seat rewoven? The chair caning or paper rush is shot and you can’t use the chair anymore? Did you use the National Furniture Repair Directory™–Seatweaving section
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Natural Selection 2.0 Exhibit Opens Feb. 1st — Monday Mention
Natural Selection 2.0 “contemporary art meets nature” February 1st – April 1st, 2011 Dakota State University Madison, South Dakota Natural Selection Profile #10, Cathryn Peters, Angora, Minnesota ‘Fiber artist Cathryn Peters has a passion for
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Peerless Rattan–Saturday Supplier
Peerless Rattan Company is located in Plainwell, Michigan. Peerless Rattan has been providing seat weaving and basket weaving materials since 1903. They carry a wide variety of raw materials, patterns, instruction books, and tools for
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Traditional Irish Craft–Friday Feature
In 2011, I discovered some of the most wonderful traditional Irish crafts on DVDs in a series called Hands, by filmmakers David Shaw-Smith and his wife, Sally. This is a fascinating and unique documentary series
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