Silver River Center for Chair Caning
Furniture Assembly
Why pick this one
Silver River Center for Chair Caning teaches five chair-weaving styles through onsite and online courses and reports restoring more than 7,500 chairs.
Best for
- restoring woven or caned chair seats
- learning hand-woven, pressed, rush, splint, or Shaker tape weaving
- furniture makers adding woven elements to their work
- students seeking a two-week chair-weaving boot camp
- organizations seeking chair-caning demonstrations or lectures
Look elsewhere if
- general furniture assembly unrelated to chair caning
- customers needing immediate chair restoration because the restoration waitlist is typically six months or longer
Specialties
- hand-woven caning
- pressed caning
- rush weaving
- splint weaving
- Shaker tape weaving
- Danish cord weaving
- chair seat restoration
Certifications
- The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc membership
- Southern Highland Craft Guild membership
- Furniture Society membership
- American Craft Council membership
- River Arts District Artists membership
What makes them different
- Describes itself as the nation’s only chair caning school and museum
- Reports restoring more than 7,500 chairs
- Offers instruction in five basic chair-weaving styles
- Provides onsite and online courses, including a two-week boot camp
- Reports more than 35 years of combined experience
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 32 N Main St, Weaverville, NC 28787
- Phone
- +18287074553
- Website
- https://silverriverchairs.com/
- SilverRiverChairs@gmail.com
Services
- chair caning restoration
- chair seat weaving
- onsite classes
- online courses
- two-week boot camps
- individual tutorials
- off-site demonstrations and lectures