Monday, September 1, 2014

The Components Of Chair Caning Chicago

By Mattie MacDonald


Chair caning is a technique of weaving chair seats among other furniture either during building new chairs or in the process of cane chair repair. The practice is achieved by using a material extracted from the peeled skin or back of the rattan vine. The process is also available in a variety of materials, often derived from grass, paper and other man made materials. This article sheds some light on the art of chair caning Chicago.

The strand material used in seat weaving is a rather shiny and glossy skin or sometimes inner bark extracted from the trunk or stem of the rattan palm. Though there are a variety of this species, only a few are ideal in the production of the high quality necessary in the chair seat weaving.

To begin with, is the pressed cane and hand cane. The most common material for the weaving is a tall, perennial grass having woody stalks. It is this material that earned the process its name. Hand cane and pressed can are two distinct types of cane, though they closely resemble each other. The two are also used interchangeably to achieve a number of different patterns. The only disparity is that hand cane is woven by hand while pressed cane is done on a loom.

By using a sharp knife, cut and trim off the rather excess rattan webbing not more than a few millimeters below the end of the grove. Be sure to cut your wrist in the exercise as it is pretty difficult to do away with blood stains from the webbing.

It is often easy to differentiate between chair cane and rattan reed. The rattan palm pole contains sharp thorns on its outer portion. These thorns are removed before the actual processing of the bark or skin takes place. After removing the thorns, the naturally glossy bark or skin is sorted, graded and stripped into different widths by a machine and packed in coils and hanks.

The splint read is a flat reed that is cut from the inside part of a rattan plant. The component is applied in making numerous weaves common with the binder type. It also allows for colored splint such as oak and ash splint materials.

The rush exists in three different types, with the first two being paper rush (man-made), and seagrass (natural). The color of the rush remains green when fresh, though it becomes tan with age. The third form of rush, the cattail rush, is especially used in more costly and antique chairs. The component is particularly challenging and slow to weave, rendering the process more expensive. The most outstanding rush weave is a triangle patter.

Simply put, the process of caning is simple and requires no specialized skill. The items are decorated with a variety of patterns and colors. Although the craft dates back to hundreds of centuries, it is still widely practiced and acknowledged. The products vary in prices, though they are within reach to many people. The time taken and the inherent pattern and material consumed are the main function of cost.




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