How To Weave A Chair Seat
Throwback thursday here are a few pix of my first paper rush chair seat that i wove in 1975.
How to weave a chair seat. About a year ago i decided that i had too many ladder back chairs. All it requires is some sort of thread rope yarn string ribbon etc and a solid square. Ken burton takes you through the final steps of weaving the seat of your chair in the onlineextra to our cover project in the aug sept 2016 issue of woodcraft magazine. Most needed work and because i have an affinity for old chairs they kept multiplying.
Sometime in the early 1980s lestel childress a fifth generation white oak basket maker from park city kentucky showed beth and me how to weave a seat for a ladder back chair. I sat on it and it didn t even budge and it s not even uncomfortable. Easy weave chair seat. Weave traditional chair seats traditional techniques and modern materials produce attractive durable results.
How to weave a fabric chair seat welcome to my fabric chair seat weaving post. Weaving a ladder back chair seat with flat reed. When i found 5 old chairs in the rafters of a barn i decided to hack them with paracor. A woven seat is easy customizable and a great way to make professional quality chairs at a fraction of the cost.
It s fairly easy to find old wooden chairs with broken out seat bottoms. In my shop dwellings. Now is where i tell you that i didn t weave this seat to be a sitting chair. A broken or drab chair seat doesn t have to mean the end for a favorite wooden chair.
My mother in law asked me to weave the rush seat on her chair knowing i was into refinishing antiques. Weaving a chair rope seat. How to weave rope seats. But it actually turned out better than i expected and much tighter and stronger.
Pattern by the basket maker s catalog 521 east walnut st. Visit any antique or second hand furniture store and you ll find great old chairs such as these solid cherry ladderbacks that are bargain priced because their woven seats have worn out. Often the chair frame is solid but no one is interested in reweaving the rush bottom. Scottsville ky 42164 1 800 447 7008.
I expected it to be a loose weave that i might use as a planter. She had done some chair caning herself but didn t want to learn how to weave rush seats so thought i d like the challenge.