Soft Brush Set for Woven Furniture

Three brushes in three stiffnesses, which is what a weave actually needs and what nobody sells as a set.

Woven furniture asks for very little and the little it asks for is specific. It wants brushing rather than wiping, it wants to be kept away from a radiator, and about once a month in a heated house it wants a light mist of water, because rattan that dries out becomes brittle and a brittle strand is the one that snaps. None of that takes more than a few minutes and all of it is the difference between a chair that lasts five years and one that lasts thirty.

Specification

• Dimensions: see the product name
• Seat or working height: not applicable
• Frame: not applicable
• Weave: not applicable
• Finish: as described
• 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: none
• Weight: approximately 0.2 kilograms
• Coverage: about 8 square metres per 250ml
• Suitable for natural rattan, cane, seagrass and water hyacinth
• Test on the underside first, always
• Sold singly

What you get

• One soft brush set for woven furniture
• A care card with the re oiling and misting intervals
• A test card

Care

Dust it with a soft brush rather than a cloth, because a cloth skates over the weave and a brush gets into it. Two or three times a year wipe it over with a barely damp cloth and let it dry away from a radiator. Rattan does not like being dry any more than it likes being wet, so a piece that lives next to a radiator or in a room with the heating on all winter will benefit from a light mist of water once a month, which sounds like an old wives' tale and is the single most useful thing anyone will tell you about it. If a strand lifts, do not pull it. Damp it, press it back and hold it with masking tape overnight.

Where it works

The unglamorous half of owning woven furniture, and the half that decides how long you own it for.