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The Complete Guide to Chair Caning $24.95 The Complete Guide to Chair Caning by Jim Widess. Excellent attention to detail with new features: how to install cane webbing in cabinet doors, speakers and as ventilation for boats. Book includes how to cane chairs, weave rush seats, splint seats, repair wicker and bamboo furniture, including how to make those fancy corner knots on rattan furniture when you do a repair. Click for more details. Quantity	Chair Caning Booklet $3.95 Chair Caning Booklet with illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet when you're weaving a seat with drilled holes in frame. If the woven part of the seat is 12" or less, one 270' coil is the amount you need. Quantity
Splint Weaving Booklet $3.95 Get this booklet for re-weaving chairs in herringbone pattern with 1/2" flat reeds. It'll take about 1 and a half lbs. of reed to weave an average seat. This pattern is woven "over 3, under 3". (This weaving pattern is identical to herringbone weave EXCEPT that herringbone uses narrow material. This pattern is for 1/2" wide material.) Quantity	Fiber Rush Seatweaving Booklet $3.95 Illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet for fiber rush seatweaving in the pattern at left. Also has all instructions to adjust for chairseats that are not perfect squares. This booklet is also the same pattern to be used for weaving SEAGRASS seats. It takes a 2 lb coil of fiber rush to weave an average 13 x 13" seat, or 2 lbs of seagrass. Quantity
Shaker Tape Seatweaving Booklet $3.95 How to weave Shaker Tape Seats on chairs with rails. Quantity	Finger Lakes Fan Weave Booklet $3.95 Finger Lakes Fan Weave booklet, illustrated how-to's. Suitable for porch chairs, dining room chairs. Use wide binder cane or 3/16 to 1/4 flat oval. It takes one 500' hank of binder cane or one lb of reed to weave the average seat. This pattern is woven "over 4, under 4". Quantity
New England Porchweave booklet $3.95 New England Porchweave booklet, completely illustrated how-to's. Get this booklet when re-weaving a porch rocker type in plain-weave with 1/4" Wide Binding Cane or narrow flat reeds. It takes one 500 ft coil of binder cane to weave a porch seat. If the back of the chair needs weaving too, the back will require 1 and a half coils of binder cane. For reed, get 3 lb to do the seat and back. Quantity	Herringbone Weave Booklet $3.95 Herringbone Seatweaving Booklet, illustrated how-to's. Suitable for all Binder Cane widths, and Flat Oval reed in 3/16" or 1/4" width. Woven in "over 3, under 3" pattern. Takes one hank, coil or pound for one average seat. Also called "twill weave" in some parts of the U.S. (This weaving pattern is identical to Splint Weave EXCEPT that Splint Weave uses 1/2" wide or wider material. This pattern is for 3/16" or 1/4" wide material.) Quantity
Stickmaking Handbook $14.95 When Sterling Publishing sent us a sample of this excellent handbook, we knew that a lot of our seatweaving customers would really appreciate it. Stickmaking Handbook is published by the UK's Guild of Master Craftman Publications and you can absolutely consider it to be a thorough course on how to make sticks/canes in one bargain-priced $14.95 book. Click image for more details. Quantity	Create an Heirloom Cradle Booklet $5.95 Create an Heirloom by Donna Rohkohl is an 8.5 x 11 booklet with instructions for 3 bassinets and 3 cradles for dolls & babies. Only the Large Cradle is suitable for real babies- and is easy to weave. You need to make a wooden base and use three pounds of #6 round, one #5 round reed, and one 1/4" flat oval reed. Quantity