Reed Spline for Cane Webbing 5mm per 5 Metres

The spline that pins webbing into its rebate. Buy the right width, and if you are not sure, send us a photograph of the groove.

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 0.2 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.