Q-I have several chairs with cane bottoms that have bottomed out after many years. The woven cane seats are held in place by a strip of cane glued into a groove. How can I salvage the chairs?

A. Don’t despair; chair-caning is not a lost art. There are two kinds of caning, says Cathryn Peters, who runs a Web site dedicated to seat weaving and wicker repair (wickerwoman.com). The original ...

Viola started studying her mother’s chair caning book, “Repairing Chair Seats with Cane,” published by Penn State. She learned the simple and effective seven-step method. Viola insists it’s easy to ...