A few modern-day artists are bringing back the centuries-old crafts of caning and weaving furniture. Alice Higgins, who opened Higgins Chair Caning in Augusta County in 2005, said chair caning has ...

PEABODY - There's a chair weaving company north of Boston that's giving people with disabilities the opportunity to be creative and make something beautiful. The Heritage Caning Company in Peabody has ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — More than rattan is woven into the chair seats produced by the Chair Caners of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Their work is also entwined with effort, artistry, an appreciation of ...

Lin Golombosky never planned on caning chairs for a living. The Willington resident had worked for 10 years as a union carpenter, a job she describes as the best years of her life. As time passed, ...

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

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 ...

BRADENTON — Earl Baker’s inspiration for cane weaving was not unusual. Most married men will relate. “My wife got me into it,” said the 73-year-old Parrish resident. It was back in the early 1990s and ...

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 ...

Many people know the ups and downs of retirement. Steve Ambrose, 68, knows the overs and unders as he repairs woven cane chair seats. Working out of his garage in the Avenues area in the west end of ...

Sometimes, while browsing through craft or home supply stores, we come across items that are meant to serve a specific purpose, but turn into entirely different creations in our head. Such was the ...