We visited our daughter in Vermont last week. She has a wooden chair that needs repair to its woven seat. The seating material is roughly 1 inch wide, and not very thick (1/16 inch or so) and looks sort of like a birch or similar material. It is wood and not, cane or any type of woven fibre. I did some research on the net, google but found the usual producs, nylon and cotton tape, woven cane. The closest I found was flat reed but it is not wide enough.
Would any of you wood gurus know what this material is and how to get it?
R
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It sounds like bast of hickory -- a traditional material for woven seats. It's the inner bark that's drawknifed off and then split if needed.
Edited 6/1/2007 4:12 pm ET by byhammerandhand
Hi R ,
Google genuine wood Splints for seats . It was often times Hickory or Ash in real wood . It's getting more difficult to find , flat fibre Reed or splint is used to replace if you can't find the original .
good luck dusty
Here is a site with instructions and a link to supplies.
http://www.basketmakerscatalog.com/mfiles/hickorybark.mv
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
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