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and is a lovely pale oak..
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It reclines back...
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Found a great 20s chair on ebay...
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original fabric a dusky/dirty green brocade
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hard to get the fabric off
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started taking the back off
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all the tacks out, starting to remove fabric
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taken apart, to get at hard to reach places
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you cannot believe how much dust was inside this chair...
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sadly not horsehair (which you can wash, apparently)...
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back half done, working on the bottom seat...
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one class's work: pretty stripped bare...
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turns out I need to strip the bottom, too...
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seat springs finally released
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all done... ready for next week
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30s chair: deconstructed (the springs go, only the square frame remains). I can rebuild it...
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(week 3) hard to tell, but I've filled all the holes with sawdust and glue
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You wouldn't believe how many tacks I took out of this...
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finally getting some webbing going...
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this is actually rather therapeutic
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dont' forget to weave over and under for the across layer
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coming along nicely
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notice the clamps to keep it all straight
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finished webbing (week 3)
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setting up all the springs...
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springs
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outer springs tacked down
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(week 4) getting the rest of the springs set up
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this is how it should look at the end of the session (but done)
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underneath, stitches where I've sown the middle springs in
