Description
Date: June 15, 2024
9 am – 4 pm
Skill Level: No prior knowledge of caning or caning skills needed. Ages 12 years & up.
Class Registration Fee: By May 27, 2024: $90.00
After May 27, 2024: $100.00
Ever wonder how a caned chair seat is made? Do you have one (or more) caned chair seats to replace? Then this is the class for you. In this class participants will hand-cane a wooden trivet using natural strand cane in order to learn the chair caning process. Other topics that will be discussed include:
- the difference between the various types of caning
- the different types of caning materials
- the 7 step method of hand caning
- how to care for caned furniture
- chair caning resources
This class will not address any painting, staining, or wood finishing issues.
Students need to bring the following supplies:
- small hand clippers or shears
- 1 or 2 small rags
- spray bottle
- bucket or tub for water (in addition to spray bottle)
- paper for notes
- pen or pencil
- an awl or ice pick
Materials fee: (To be collected directly from students by instructor in class): $25.00 to cover cost of trivet kit. Kit includes trivet frame, natural strand cane, binder cane, instruction booklet, and 10 caning pegs.
Mary Jo Harris lives in Madison, WI. She has been a teacher all of her adult life and has formally taught knitting at various Sheep and Wool Festivals, Fiber Festivals, Knit-In’s throughout the Midwest, and for the Oregon School System, Madison College, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Wisconsin Craft Market, and Sunset Yarn.
Over 10 years ago, she added Chair Caning classes to her teaching repertoire and has taught local classes in addition to classes at places like the WI Sheep and Wool Festival, Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival, Shepherd’s Harvest (in Minnesota), Missouri Fiber Retreat, and Michigan Fiber Festival.
Under her designer name of Jo Harris, Mary Jo designs knitting patterns and has written a book entitled ‘Double Knitting – Inside Out’. A member of the Madison (WI) Knitters’ Guild, Mary Jo loves any opportunity to discuss anything and everything knitting or caning related.
