Weaving a chair seat

Welcome to my fabric chair seat weaving post! About a year ago, I decided that I had too many ladder back chairs in my shop, Dwellings. Most needed work and because I have an affinity for old chairs, they kept multiplying. One day I decided to try my hand at weaving a seat, but I began with a small stool. Before: Poor thing After: My first attempt It wasn't great, but when one of our favorite customers purchased it, that inspired me, and I began the journey of fabric weaving not having a…

weaving a chair seat out of paracord

Even if a chair has a broken seat, it can still be repaired and made new again! This post gives a step by step tutorial on how to fix a chair with a broken seat by cutting a new seat from wood and upholstering it with fabric.

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.

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!…

A few months ago my beautiful mother-in-law passed away very suddenly. She had many beautiful pieces of furniture -- mementos of her travels and of a life well lived.... aaaaand she had a few not so beautiful pieces. In the days before her funeral, her seven children flew out from every corner of the country and began the heart-breaking task of sorting through her belongings. The children took turns selecting items they wanted to keep, then they decided which items to donate and which items…

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

I had a client with a family heirloom that wanted nothing more than to have the chair seat, that went with the set I was painting, re-weaved. This client knew…

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...

Woven fiber-rush foot stools and chairs look rustic and attractive and can last a long time. Whether you are replacing the busted top of your favorite foot stool or creating a covering for a brand new foot stool, weaving with fiber rush is a simple process based on a basic figure eight pattern, which results in a ...

I had a client with a family heirloom that wanted nothing more than to have the chair seat, that went with the set I was painting, re-weaved. This client knew…

After a long winter, the snow finally melted enough to assess the condition of the heavy wrought iron patio set that had remained outdoors. While the chairs l…

I used the technique for weaving a rush chair seat to make a chair seat using old jeans. The antique ladderback chair is just the right hei...

Upcycle your own set of woven seat chairs easily and quickly. Use them as an additional seating option for a party or as a funky bohemian decoration.

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If you’ve got an old chair with a gross seat, or one with no seat at all, but you still love the chair – don’t worry! All is not lost. With about an hour

You may have seen in a previous project post. I made a Porch Lounger. Well, we are moving and I separated the chairs out and this is what I did with two of them…

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!…

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