by Kurvemagerne
Learn chair weaving
Free guides from the Kurvemagerne workshop, where we weave more than 2,500 chair seats a year. Find out what your chair needs, then weave it step by step.
How to weave a chair seat: start by reading the frameHand caning, cane webbing, Danish cord, seagrass or flag halyard? Read the frame and find the method your chair needs.Read the guide
Cane: hand caning and webbing
- How to cane a chair, step by stepHand caning in seven passes: layers, zigzag, diagonals and edging, with the tools, the steps and the mistakes to avoid.Read the guide
- How to recane a chair: from torn seat to new caningRecord the old seat, get the old cane out without damaging the frame, prepare the holes and reweave.Read the guide
- How to install cane webbing, step by stepA groove and no holes? Remove the old spline, soak the webbing, press it in straight and glue in a new spline.Read the guide
Danish cord, seagrass and rope
- Danish cord chair weaving: how to weave a paper cord seatFlat weave on L-nails or the rush pattern? Find your chair’s weave, then lay the warp and weave the pattern in paper cord.Read the guide
- How to weave a new seat on the Wishbone Chair (CH24)Wegner’s CH24 seat in 3 mm paper cord: fill the front corners, weave the rush pattern and finish underneath. With our free video.Read the guide
- Rush seat weaving: how to weave the rush pattern, round by roundThe rush pattern, round by round: square up the seat, weave the four corners and close the middle, in seagrass or paper cord.Read the guide
- How to weave a chair seat with ropeFlag halyard, wrapped and woven: how much you need, the warp, the weave and a finish without visible knots.Read the guide
Rather follow along on video?
Each course takes you from bare frame to finished seat. You see every move up close and work at your own pace.