Craft · 6 pages · 12 min

How caning works

Cane is woven through holes in a wooden seat frame, then tightens as it dries into a sprung panel.

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From the opening

Caning fills a seat or a back with strands of rattan cane woven through a pattern of holes in the wooden frame. The strands themselves become the panel, held by the holes and by the way they lock over and under one another. The opening covers strands pass through drilled holes, diagonals lock the open grid, and drying shrinks the cane tight.

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Inside

Strands pass through drilled holes
Diagonals lock the open grid
Drying shrinks the cane tight
Sheet cane is a different method
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Hole-and-strand cane weave
Rattan cane shrinkage on drying

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How caning works

From the opening

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