Chair weaving

Using pre-twisted rush, which mimics the look of the genuine rush used in the past, David Johnson lays out the process of weaving a traditional rush seat.

Rope or Hemp Bottom Chair - I found this old neglected chair on it's way to the garbage and just had to save it The wood was so dry, West Texas is so very hard

Seat weaving with tape. To estimate the quantity of 1″ wide tape needed per chair seat, multiply widest width by the widest length and divide by nine. Standard size seats usually require 25 to 30 yards of material.

weaving a chair seat out of paracord

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Rushing a chair is one of the traditional methods of creating a seat for a chair with rails around the perimeter. Materials for rushing include twisted cattail leaves or even twisted strands of paper. The strands of rush are stretched...

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Weave Chair Seats With Paracord: It's fairly easy to find old wooden chairs with broken out seat bottoms. Often the chair frame is solid, but no one is interested in reweaving the rush bottom. When I found 5 old chairs in the rafters of a barn I decided to hack them with paracord!…

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 Woodcraf...

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