White seat follow-up
Here's a little follow-up to my White seat question. Thanks for all the help!
I copied White directly when I built the frames but I did have to emblish the design a little. (I just chamfered the top leading edges - they were much too plain just slightly relieved like White left them) As best as I can tell White did use a "six step" traditional weave, like this, without edge binding.
Where I did step out of the box was with the choice of material with which to weave the seats. The bow seat (on top) is plastic caning, 1/8" wide, just like medium natural cane without all the caning problems. This stuff was made to be used in moist situiations - what better place to test it than a canoe? The seat on the bottom is medium natural cane. I struggled to do that chair in two days. The canoe seat I did in just a few hours at only a fraction of the cost and none of the frustrations working with a natural product can cause. Other than the color difference, you have to touch the stuff to tell it is not real cane! And even then it ain't easy to tell......