Seat Renewal
Chair Caning Services - Normal IL
I began Seat Renewal in 1984. Having been laid off of a surveying job at a coal mine, I wondered what I would do next…
I am still doing caning through Doll Furniture Co.
If you need chair caning done please call them for an estimate and to set up a time to drop your furniture off at their shop at:
400 N Beech Street
Normal, IL 61761
Hand Woven Cane
Hand woven chair cane is the type of hand cane that is completely woven by hand. If you turn your chair upside down you will see that the cane is woven through little holes in the wood seat of the chair. You will notice little loops of cane from hole to hole.
Pre Woven Chair Cane
Prewoven cane webbing is used on seats with a groove around the edge. Cane webbing is woven on power looms from natural strand cane in the Orient into traditional and modern patterns.
Splint Weave Chair Cane
A splint seat weave seat is done with a flat reed. Splint is a flat, woody material cut from the inside of the rattan palm. Traditionally splint was oak, ash, or hickory; today flat reed and flat oval reed are often substituted. The materials I use are very strong and most free of hairs and splits.
Blind Weave and Double Blind Weave Cane
Blind weaving means that the holes that hold the cane are drilled halfway through the wood so you can't see the loop of the cane on the backside. Double blind caning is the same but the caning is repeated on the back or underneath side too. Double blind weave is like doing two chairs in one. Blind caning and double blind cane are very labor intensive, and time consuming. Each and every strand has to be cut exactly to size, and then a drop of glue on the strand before being inserted into the hole, then a peg placed in the hold to secure that strand for drying. Generally this type of cane is used in high end antiques and museum quality pieces.
Fiber Weave - Fiber and Natural Rush Chair Cane
Fiber rush is a twisted kraft paper. Natural rush seat chairs with round rails can have seats woven either of rush or of splint. The original seat usually shows which type to use. Rush seat weaving can be used with chairs of simple design like the early American ladder back style chair seats. Rush seat weaving can be used if the chairs seat rails are all the same height or if the two side rails are a bit higher than the rails at the front and back of the seat.
