Pale hardwood rocking chair with a freshly woven cord seat and tall woven back panel

Custom Projects

Woven Rocking Chair Restoration

A rocking chair rebuilt in pale hardwood with the seat and back completely rewoven in cord.

ProjectWoven Rocking Chair Restoration
ServiceCustom Projects
LocationNot recorded — see note below
Photos4 (1 mid-build)

The problem

The chair's frame was sound but the woven seat and back had gone. Reweaving is slow, fiddly work that most shops will not quote for.

What Gary did

Gary worked the frame back up and rewove the seat and back panels in cord, keeping the tension even so the weave supports weight without sagging into a hammock.

The result

A usable chair again, with a crisp basketweave pattern across both panels.

How it came together

Rocking chair frame in a living room during the rebuild, before the weave was completed

In progress

Finished

Project photographs

FinishedExtreme close view of the cord basketweave showing the even tension across the panel

FinishedSlatted timber bench chair on a rug beside a fireplace

Project location is not published because it has not been confirmed. Gary's photo archive spans more than one market and these images are not individually dated or geotagged, so no city is claimed for any single project.