I think I posted one of the chairs before but not in it’s own thread. The other day I mentioned my grandpa teaching me to braid rope using baler twine saved from hay bales each winter. We’d sell them in town to other farmers.
We also braided chair bottoms from baler twine. Chair kits like these below were sold everywhere in the south for decades. (I think a furniture company in NC made them) We’d buy kits at the hardware store. Next we’d coat them with varnish/lacquer and assemble the chairs. Then we’d braid the bottoms with twine.
These chairs are at least 50yrs old. The bottoms just as sound as the day we made them. And still used in the storm cellar and on the porch.
We have any basket makers here? The same weaving patterns are used for making baskets, chair bottoms and rope.
Below are a couple of white oak baskets I still have. I used them as a kid when we’d pull corn. It was pulled by hand in the fall and tossed in piles every 20ft or so. Then we’d go through the field pulling a wagon with a tractor. These piles of corn would be put in these very baskets and carried to the wagon and dumped.
We also braided chair bottoms from baler twine. Chair kits like these below were sold everywhere in the south for decades. (I think a furniture company in NC made them) We’d buy kits at the hardware store. Next we’d coat them with varnish/lacquer and assemble the chairs. Then we’d braid the bottoms with twine.
These chairs are at least 50yrs old. The bottoms just as sound as the day we made them. And still used in the storm cellar and on the porch.
We have any basket makers here? The same weaving patterns are used for making baskets, chair bottoms and rope.
Below are a couple of white oak baskets I still have. I used them as a kid when we’d pull corn. It was pulled by hand in the fall and tossed in piles every 20ft or so. Then we’d go through the field pulling a wagon with a tractor. These piles of corn would be put in these very baskets and carried to the wagon and dumped.