WESTFIELD – From caning chairs to hosting craft classes, the owners of the Seat Weaver have continued an upward climb in success that prompted a move to a bigger location just a year-and-a-half after ...

Nicholas Thaete, owner of Cane and Rush in Maplewood Mall, has a cure for memory loss — if you happen to be a wicker chair. It turns out that wicker, the generic term for plant material woven together ...

“Chair caning is really a dying art,” she said, as she explained the process of weaving cane through tiny holes onto a wooden chair. White is one of a handful in the area who can do chair caning and ...

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 ...

While the craft of chair caning takes years to learn and perfect, Emily Uphill can’t help but think her skill at the trade might be a bit genetic, too. After all, she learned to weave cane and other ...

Wayne Sharp likes to joke that he first learned caning, the art of weaving chair seats and backs, in an attempt to win over Vernon the "Swede" Eriksen, his wife's Scandinavian rattan-plaiting dad. "My ...