In this video I show how I weave cane on the seats I made for my cedar strip canoe. The last 20 seconds of the video is time lapse of the weaving process - watching that a couple times might make the process make more sense...
Process:
Soak the strands of cane in room temperature water for about 15 minutes before you weave with them. Soaking them makes them more flexible and also a little bit stretchy. When the cane dries it will tighten up a little bit where ever you weave it. If you soak it for more than a half an hour I’ve heard the cane starts to discolor.
LAYER 1 is a vertical layer. Start in the middle and leave about 4 inches hanging down from where you start. Pull the cane across (shiny side up) and put it in the corresponding hole across from where you started. Feed it down that hole, up the hole next to it, across to the other side, and continue like this to one side of the seat. Then go back to where you started and feed it the other side.
LAYER 2 is a horizontal - pretty much the same as the first layer - just lay it right on top.
LAYER 3 is a repeat of layer 1 only this time put it slightly to the right of the first layer.
LAYER 4 is when you start weaving. Weave over layer 3 and under layer 1.
LAYER 5 is the first diagonal layer. I don’t think it matters if you weave over the horizontal strands and under the vertical strands or vice versa. For my weave I went over the vertical and under the horizontal.
LAYER 6 is the last layer. You weave the opposite diagonal pattern than you did for layer 5.
Bind the edges with the wider cane. I think I used 4mm wide cane. Stick an end into one of the corner holes, then on a hole next to it, make a loop with the 3mm cane and synch the binding cane down. Then use the same 3mm cane to make a loop on the next hole. Continue like this around the entire seat.
Tie the loose ends underneath the seat.
Here are some other caning resources I’ve found online that were helpful for me:
www.wickerwoman...
• Weaving A Cane Seat Us...
Here is a kit I bought on Amazon that I used:
www.amazon.com...
Here are a couple good resources to learn more about Cedar Strip Canoe Building:
www.amazon.com... - “Canoecraft” is the cedar strip canoe building bible. Buy it and read the whole book before you start building.
forum.woodenboa... - This site is actually really helpful. Usually if I type a specific boat building question into google a previous forum post from the Woodenboat Forum is near the top. You can also post your own questions.
www.instructabl... - This guy (Jim Clem) made a very detailed step-by-step guide to cedar strip canoe building. There are a lot of helpful process explanations for some of the trickier parts of building. I used his blog a lot while building my first canoe.
Feel free to comment on this video if you have any questions! Thanks for watching!
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