PRESS RELEASE FROM SILVER RIVER CENTER FOR CHAIR CANING: The 9th Annual Gathering of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc. brings the craft of chair caning to the Folk Art Center July 29-31. Asheville’s Silver ...

Nicholas Thaete, owner of Cane and Rush in Maplewood Mall, has a cure for memory loss — if you happen to be a wicker chair. It turns out that wicker, the generic term for plant material woven together ...

CHESAPEAKE — Kate Callahan wets a sponge at the utility sink in the garage of her home in Western Branch . She wrings it out hard before closing it around a long strand of fiber rush. The water makes ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — More than rattan is woven into the chair seats produced by the Chair Caners of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Their work is also entwined with effort, artistry, an appreciation of ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Every summer, Sam Cooper and Richard Platt head down to the River Arrow near Stratford, and the River Wansbeck, in ...

Learn how to weave a chair seat with reed to retrofit and old chair and give it new life. Get started flat reed chair caning today for a fun and practical hobby. Every chair has a story. My favorite ...

A Chesapeake woman got some tips from her dad and jumped feet-first into making furniture. Kate Callahan wets a sponge at the utility sink in the garage of her home in Western Branch. She wrings it ...

The ninth Annual Gathering of The SeatWeavers’ Guild brings the craft of chair caning to the Folk Art Center from July 29-31. Asheville’s Silver River Center for Chair Caning is hosting the conference ...

Many people know the ups and downs of retirement. Steve Ambrose, 68, knows the overs and unders as he repairs woven cane chair seats. Working out of his garage in the Avenues area in the west end of ...

Wayne Sharp likes to joke that he first learned caning, the art of weaving chair seats and backs, in an attempt to win over Vernon the "Swede" Eriksen, his wife's Scandinavian rattan-plaiting dad. "My ...