A. Don’t despair; chair-caning is not a lost art. There are two kinds of caning, says Cathryn Peters, who runs a Web site dedicated to seat weaving and wicker repair (wickerwoman.com). The original ...

Chairs with woven seats have been under us for thousands of years. In ancient China, woven furniture was made from rattan vines, and in Egypt, dried rushes. Today, both natural and man-made materials ...

And so, their chair caning adventures began. Viola started studying her mother’s chair caning book, “Repairing Chair Seats with Cane,” published by Penn State. She learned the simple and effective ...

Rolan Barrall’s Allentown house is cluttered with broken chairs awaiting his attention, and he has vowed to restore them all, eventually, even the ones tucked away in the old coal cellar. At 51, he is ...