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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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 “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 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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Just recently I discovered some of the most wonderful traditional Irish craft DVD’s in a series called, Hands, offered on David Shaw-Smith’s Etsy Shop. https://www.etsy.com/shop/HandsSeries?ref=pr_shop_more Here’s the description quote from David’s Etsy Shop, “A series
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Basket Guilds–Are you a beginning basketmaker or maybe a weaver that’s been at it for a long time, but looking for others to learn from or at least establish “community” with? Maybe you want to
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Have you seen the latest YouTube video on The Wicker Woman Channel? This one is of a weasel, called an ermine in the winter, who was trying to eat the suet at the bird feeder
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For years before the smoked rattan reed was invented, we wicker repair pros had to stain match the natural whiteish reed color to a dark, stained wicker piece. So once the new smoked reed came
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