PEABODY - There's a chair weaving company north of Boston that's giving people with disabilities the opportunity to be creative and make something beautiful. The Heritage Caning Company in Peabody has ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Rolan Barrall’s house is cluttered with broken chairs awaiting his attention, and he has vowed to restore them all, eventually, even the ones tucked away in his old coal cellar. At 51 ...

It is a traditional craft which dates back to the 1880s – but was in danger of dying out. Now two young craftsmen are keeping alive the tradition of rush seat chairmaking in a line that has been ...

Wayne Sharp likes to joke that he first learned caning, the art of weaving chair seats and backs, in an attempt to win over Vernon the "Swede" Eriksen, his wife's Scandinavian rattan-plaiting dad. "My ...