Get a taste and feel for chair caning during this one-day beginner class. Students will learn the traditional 7-step method of hand caning on a preassembled and lightly stained footstool. Once the basic techniques are mastered in class, you will be ready to conquer more difficult chairs, maybe even going into business for yourself to preserve this traditional and nearly lost artform! Kit includes: prepared footstool, strand cane, binder cane, 12 caning pegs, caning awl, instruction pattern and handouts. 

You will need the following tools for this class:

• bucket or pail
• towel
• scissors
• hammer
• utility knife
• pencil
• tape measure
• flat head screwdriver or weaving tool

Feel free to bring your favorite tools and whatever materials you might feel appropriate for this course.