TaleWeavers, Antique Chair & Wicker Furniture Repair

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Preserving America's Heritage

TaleWeavers is committed to preserving the heritage of early America through the research and restoration of antiques and folk crafts. Specializing in caned and wicker antique furniture restoration, we also engage in traditional basketmaking, needlework, quilting, and other folk crafts. Designs are researched to reflect accurate techniques and materials to the appropriate era.

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Chair Caning / Restoration

We repair antiques: antique chair caning, antique wicker furniture. Antiques repair is our work; chair caning and wicker furniture repair, our specialty. The restoration process involved for an antique chair or rocker may include hand refinishing, replacement of chair parts, and the reweaving of a chair seat. Reweaving may include strand or web caning, fiber rush, Danish cord, Shaker tape and splint seat weaving.

We also repair and restore antique wicker furniture. Wicker is made with a natural material or twisted paper and over time the wicker reed may break down. We replace individual weavers and spokes on any wicker chair, chaise, setee, swing, or rocker. We can restore entire sections of wicker that may have broken. Wicker holds a special place in many homes.

We bring the history of an era, a craftsman, and a family to renewed meaning.

 

Listed in:

National Furniture Repair Directory

Antique Restorers.com

The Country Seat, Seat Weaving Teachers Directory

The Internet Antiques Guide

HelloErie.com
AreaConnect Erie Yellow Pages and More

 

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Chair Repair Center

Winter is a time that is hard on antique furniture, especially chairs.  Home heating systems can dry out the air in your home.  Winter, by nature, is a drier season than most.  This dry environment is not the best condition for antique furniture. Use the checklist list below to help to maintain your antique collection through the winter.  

  • Place antiques, especially chairs away from heating vents. 
  • Place antique furniture away from windows with a southern exposure.
  • Give your antique furniture some distance from your wood/coal/gas/kerosene burners
  • Treat your antiques to a rub down with a furniture oil or wax. 
  • Spray water underneath the caned seats of your antique chairs.
  • Monitor the humidity level in your home. 
  • Turn down the heat in your home at night. 

Basket Making

TaleWeavers demonstrates white oak and ash splint basket making from bursting the tree to the finished basket. This is fast-becoming a lost folk art and craft. Basket designs are researched to reflect accurate basketry techniques and materials to the central Appalachians, the Ohio River valley, and the Great Lakes region of the United States.

StoryTelling

For each chair seat and basket that is woven, there is a story. A story about the chair or basket and a story about the weaver. Our lives are a woven tapestry of stories that tell others about our world. A part of TaleWeavers' mission is to share the stories of ages past.

Arlene is the principal storyteller. She shares tales from Native Americans, frontiersmans of America, and stories about some of the antique chair we restore and the folk baskets made by TaleWeavers.