Cane Webbing Fitting Kit

Wedges, a caning chisel, glue and a spline trimmer. Everything for setting a panel into a groove and none of it available in one place anywhere else.

We sell the materials because people kept asking and because nobody else would tell them what to buy. Two things go wrong with a cane repair. People buy the wrong pattern, because six way and herringbone look similar in a photograph and completely different on a door. And people glue the spline in over the old one instead of chiselling the groove out, which holds for about a year. If you send us a photograph of the panel and the groove we will tell you what you need, and we would rather do that than sell you the wrong thing.

Specification

• Dimensions: see the product name for the width and the length
• Seat or working height: not applicable
• Frame: not applicable
• Weave: as described in the product name
• Finish: natural, undyed, and it takes a stain well
• Load rating: not applicable
• Indoor or outdoor: Indoors, or a covered veranda or conservatory that stays dry. Natural rattan is not garden furniture and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a chair that will go grey, swell, split and unravel inside two seasons. If you want rattan outdoors you want woven polyethylene, which is a good product honestly described and something we do not sell.
• Assembly: soak the webbing for 30 minutes before fitting, which the instructions explain
• Weight: approximately 0.9 kilograms
• Sold by the metre off a roll, so a 2 metre order arrives in one piece
• Natural and undyed, ready to stain or lacquer after fitting
• Photograph service: send us the panel and we will tell you the pattern
• Fitting instructions included with every order

What you get

• The material as described
• Printed fitting instructions with a soaking guide
• A pattern identification card

Care

Store it flat and dry. Cane that has dried out for years will still soak back and become workable, so an old roll is not a wasted roll.

Where it works

Not a styling question. This is the material that keeps a hundred year old chair in use rather than in a skip, which is the most sustainable thing in this shop by a considerable margin.