Custom Dye Job for Child’s Rocker, Part 1
CUSTOM DYEING REED WITH CARLA FILIPELLI PART 1 I had the good fortune to hang out with Carla and Greg Filipelli at their studio Cranberry Creek and try my hand at dyeing my own reed for weaving colorful seats. They have been making baskets and sculptures for over 25 years and are part of Handmade in […]
Cane-spotting…Norman Rockwell’s Chair
Chair Repair, Chair Repair. Like I said, it’s everywhere! Including tonight on Antiques Roadshow. Watch it here. Or read the article. This lady was a model for Norman as a child and her father was his friend/photographer, who eventually got the chair off of him. He gave it away because the seat was broken! […]
Cane-spotting! The Inaugural Luncheon.
In the early days of my chair caning business, I came up with a cheer: GO CHAIR REPAIR! And a jingle: Chair repair, chair repair, doot doot doot doot doot chair repair. (If you’re trying to sing it yourself, the melody goes up the first 3 syllables, down the second 3 syllables, and the last […]
Canespotting: Mark Twain’s Chair
While being laid out with the flu, Dave and I watched a Ken Burns special about Mark Twain. We see cane chairs and designs in almost every show we watch including Dr. Who, Sons of Anarchy, Downton Abbey, a Mt. Everest documentary, and numerous nerdy biographies on PBS. Here is a chair we were really […]
