|
|
SEAT WEAVING INSTRUCTION
MANUALS
We used to recommend various very good books to our customers who wanted to learn
seat weaving techniques. Sadly, the best of these books are now out of print.
We decided the time had come to produce our own instruction manuals. The first three
have been on sale for some time now, and there is also a single A4 sheet describing how to
fit a sheet of rattan webbing to a seat. In time, when all the separate manuals have been
produced, we hope to publish a larger book including all the information from the smaller
ones.
|
|
The SitUpon Caning Book (Part 1)
describes the basic 6-way caning pattern. Full of colour photos and detailed diagrams, this
books takes the reader step-by-step through the technique. Instructions for beading are
also treated in depth. Part 2 will come out later: it will include more complicated techniques
such as curved panels, sunrise and medallion backs, and more complex patterns (beyond
the 6- way).
£8.00 including postage and packing.
This book is available at £2 off to customers
who buy a caning kit.
|
|
SitUpon Stool Book
deals with the various materials that can be used for weaving a seat on a plain wooden
stool.
Methods of weaving seagrass are described - both the traditional chequerboard pattern and
other patterns such as diagonals and diamonds. The use of coloured cotton cord is
explained,
and several large, full-colour patterns are included at the end of the book. Other patterns
can
be ordered if required, and special patterns can be desgined to order, incorporating, for
example a child's initial.
£6.00 including postage and packing.
This book is available at £2 off to customers
who buy a stool or chair kit.
|
|
The SitUpon Rush Pattern Book
The rush pattern is the one used traditionally on a rush chair: it divides the seat into 4
triangles. Most people find real natural rush quite difficult to handle at first, and so this book
teaches the rush pattern using gentler materials such as kraft paper rush and seagrass.
There
are numerous full colour photos and detailed diagrams. A second book will come out later,
describing how to weave with real rush.
£7.00 including postage and packing.
This book is available at £2 off to customers
who buy a stool or chair kit.
|
|
Instructions for fitting a cane webbing seat
This is a single page with colour diagrams and simple instructions. If you're fitting a new
piece of open-weave rattan webbing to a chair of the 'Cesca' type, this will tell you all you
need to know. This sheet is included in the Cesca Chair Kits
which
contain enough open weave webbing for most sizes of chair seat, and a strip of 4mm
beading
cane. The kits cost £9.50 including postage
and packing.
If you're buying any cane webbing and want a copy of the instruction sheet, please just
ask for it - it's free if you're buying cane webbing. Otherwise, if you want to purchase the
sheet on its own, it costs £1.50 including postage
and packing.
|
NEW! Stool kits and kiddies' chair kits.
Click here to find out all about
them. |
INSTRUCTION MANUALS PLANNED
FOR THE FUTURE
Eventually we hope to produce books on every type of seat weaving: our to-do list so
far stands as follows:
- Seagrass and cotton cord READY NOW
- Caning (part 1) READY NOW
- The rush pattern using kraft paper rush and ready twisted rush READY NOW
- Caning (part 2) - to include more complicated projects like sunrise and medallion backs,
curved surfaces, blind holes and double panels. I'm working on this. Each time an
interesting chair comes into the workshop, photos are taken. Eventually I'll make time to
write it up. Watch this space.
- Seat weaving with real rush - I suspect we have enough photos for this now, so once
again, it's just a matter of finding time to draw up the diagrams and write the text.
- Pre-woven rattan webbing READY NOW (Just a single
sheet). This sheet has been around so long that I'm beginning to feel I could
improve on it, so it has got itself back on to the to-do list.
- Other types of woven seating - e.g., Danish cord is the next priority, as I have some
excellent photos of a Danish cord chair being reseated.
- If you happen to be a publisher, would you be interested in producing all these booklets
together in one properly bound book?
|
|
