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Rush Chair Seats
We went to a local arts and crafts fair a few months ago and carried our kitchen chairs with us to see about getting them re-caned. These are my parents old kitchen chairs and the seats had started tearing out of two of them. The guy at the fair said it would cost us about $60 per chair to have him do the work. We weren’t expecting to pay that much so we looked into getting the materials and doing it ourselves. My wife researched it and ended up ordering two rolls of brown rush cord(twisted kraft paper) and a booklet online. We did the first one last night and it wasn’t too hard. It did take some time since we had to learn as we went. Here is the finished result for chair #1:
We haven’t shellac’d them yet so the color will be darker when we do that. We got our supplies at www.seatweaving.org
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