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| The Complete Guide to Chair Caning - Jim Widess, co-author of the best-selling Caner's Handbook, and one of the field's top authoritities, presents crafters with five amazingly detailed seat weaving projects you'll treasure for years to come. Best of all, with the help of a thorough basics chapter, reader-friendly instructions, and a plethora of illuminating color photographs, even beginners can complete every beautiful item. |
Complete
step-by-step photographs for machine caning, hand
caning, rush weaving, splint weaving, wicker and rattan
wraps. |
Includes
the history of caning and the harvesting and processing
of rattan. |
Trace
the weaving of seats through holes drilled in the
frame from ancient Egypt to China to Europe and the
Americas. |
Find
out how to use machine-made caning to restore an old
chair. Clear, detailed, close-up step-by-step photographic
instruction from cleaning out the old cane through
installing the new webbing. |
Create
an entirely new cane seat by hand using techniques
never before illustrated. |
Learn
about the processing of rattan in Indonesia as well
as French needle caning. |
Fashion
a durable and comfortable rush seat using fiber that's
twisted into long strands with clear photographed
instructions. Learn how to incorporate color patterns
using paper rush to mimic the French colored straw-wrapped
rush. |
Detailed
weaving of wicker from start to finish. |
Step-by-step
instructions for recreating complicated rattan wraps
on furniture joins, teapot handles and baskets and
for providing valuable information on the different
types of available cane and various woven patterns. |
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The Complete Guide to Chair Caning
124 pages include 435 color photographs, numerous patent
drawings, 10 figures, 6 historical black and white photographs. #19927 - $24.95 (hardcover) |