TUESDAY TIP OF THE DAY–Today’s blog post is about a situation that new chair caners encounter frequently, and it’s a question I’m asked many times during the chair caning classes I teach. “How tight is […]
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This post is a reprint taken from my newsletter sent through Yahoo! Groups for nearly seven years from 1999-2007 with a subscriber list of 800+ Wicker Woman’s Weavings Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2007Library of
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TUESDAY TIP OF THE DAY–Tools for applying sheet cane webbing Applying sheet cane webbing? Having problems getting the caning down into the grove? Try using some specially made wooden chair caning wedges to insert the
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WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM–Today’s topic is about creativity in using an old wicker material in a new innovative way. Well, it’s probably not so innovative, just different… A while back a customer brought in this small
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Tuesday Tip of the Day—The first step in weaving paper rush seats is to fill in the side rail gussets or “squaring up” a trapezoidal seat. You are probably wondering why you’d need to square
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FRIDAY FEATURE– is an update on Chair Caning Blogs that I follow and would suggest you subscribe to also, either using their email subscription or RSS feed. Keep up with what’s going on in the
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MONDAY MENTION–I was surfing around trying to find some more chair caning blogs like this one that I blogged about before, when I discovered that a favorite caning supply company, Peerless Rattan Company has a
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Did you know that most of the Cane & Basket Suppliers listed on WickerWoman.com send out either weekly or monthly newsletters? Well they do, and it’s a great way for the supply companies to let
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