Monday Mention--The SeatWeavers' Guild

Today’s Mention is about The SeatWeavers’ Guild Gathering in July 2008 for our first annual member’s business meeting and workshop.

Once again we spent the weekend on the lovely grounds of Robbins Crossing, an 1800s village recreation in Nelsonville, OH. The village is a perfect setting for our old-time heritage craft of chair caning.

As you might remember from previous posts, The SeatWeavers’ Guild (TSWG) is a relatively new chair caning guild that was proposed by members of my online Seatweaving & Chair Caning Forum (2004-2019).

Then, last year, in the summer of 2007, in Nelsonville, Ohio, with about 20 members from my Chair Caning Forum attending, our non-profit organization was fully organized with a board of directors, mission statement, and bylaws.

Foundering members sitting at picnic tables for the business meeting of The SeatWeavers' Guild at Robbins Crossing Village in Nelsonville, OH, July 2008.

At that founder’s meeting, we decided to hold our annual business meeting and member gathering once a year to share hints and tips and new weaving techniques, hold workshops and demonstrations, and socialize with fellow chair caners.

We are delighted that chair caners from all across the country and Canada attended our first annual business meeting and gathering of like-minded chair caning enthusiasts. And we hope to see everyone again in July of 2009 for our second Gathering of the guild.

Please consider becoming a member of the first and only chair caning guild in North America by contacting me through my website contact form until I set up a website for The SeatWeavers’ Guild (TSWG).

Here is a video I created and put on YouTube.com documenting some of the founding members, our workshops and demonstrations of all sorts of chair seat weavings. Enjoy!