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*STAY TUNED FOR OUR SEAT WEAVING INSTRUCTIONAL BOOK The Woven Chair, Summer 2025
Mother Earth News
August/September 2021 Weave a Splint Reed Chair Seat by Brandy Clements- DIY instructions for restoring your chairs with splint reed in a herringbone twill pattern.
Podcasts
Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast (4 episodes)
Conversations with Kyle, Sean, and Mark about all things wood/tools/skills/life/sportsball/fortnightly beer choices and all things nerdy.
Post Storm Edition Part Deux Episode 1
Post Storm Edition Part Deux Episode 2, the 5 questions
Click here to listen to our first appearance on the podcast!
Click here to listen to the 5 Questions
Crafting A Revolution: Brandy Clements
A nerdy discussion with Katie Freeman of Katie Freeman Designs in Iowa, December 2021
Listen on your Apple Podcasts or on Spotify
Watch it on YouTube
Then Again Podcast
Click here to listen! The Northeast Georgia History Center interviews David Klingler on his woodworking background and what goes on at the nation’s only chair weaving school & museum, Silver River Chairs
Teach With Your Hands at Good City Craft School
Brandy Clements on the Myth of the Dying Art a 50 min. episode on the culture and future of chair caning.
Articles & Videos About the Chair Nerds
Add WNC Magazine https://wncmagazine.com/feature/weaving_tradition
Add Peter Greenberg’s The Travel Detective Hidden Gems Asheville Season 8 Episode 2 – minute 9:20 https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0BZR7L3VN/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s8
Carolina Home and Garden
A hand-caned chair seat appears rustic and comfortable. But it carries a lot more weight beyond its function and simple elegance. The style is part of a long and proud — ancient, even — lineage. Read Article
Capital At Play – June, 2017
Craftsmanship.
It’s something we take seriously here in Western North Carolina. We want our beer to be high quality, our art to be envelope-pushing, and our meals to be sourced from local produce. In Asheville in particular…Among those proudly carrying this mantle of craftsmanship are Brandy Clements and Dave Klingler, the chair caning couple who opened the Silver River Center for Chair Caning in 2015 in Asheville’s River Arts District. Read Article
In The Laurel of Asheville
More than a hundred chair caners from around the country will converge at the Southern Highland Craft Guild’s Folk Art Center for the ninth annual Gathering of the SeatWeavers’ Guild Friday through Sunday, July 29–31. Read Article
Capital At Play
Seven Partners in Life and Business Share the Lessons They’ve Learned Along the Way
And more…
Asheville River Arts District – The Travel Channel (August, 2018) CLICK TO WATCH! (skip to 1:25 for Silver River Chairs)
Explore Your Creative Life-Sophie Magazine (November/December, 2016) Read Article
Ancient Art Coming to Asheville-WLOS News 13 (July, 2016) CLICK TO WATCH!
Come As You Are – American Craft Magazine (February/March 2016) Read Article
Silver River Center for Chair Caning Weaves Past and Present – onHaywood.com (1/26/2016) Read Article
BRANDY CLEMENTS: CHAIR CANER – Sophie Magazine (12/28/2015) Read Article
The River Arts District is Home to Silver River – The Biltmore Beacon (11/5/2015) Read Article
Raising Cain – Carolina Home + Garden (6/28/2013) Read Article
Chairlift: Silver River Center for Chair Caning adds school and museum – Mountain Xpress (6/12/2015) Read Article
Chair caning museum opens in River Arts District – Asheville Citizen-Times (6/8/2015) Read Article
In Asheville’s River Arts District, a unique chair caning school and museum – Ashvegas.com (6/2/2015) Read Article
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