SitUpon Seats

03/09/2024

Latest project. It's quite a big job, as the back has blind holes, which take a lot longer to do, but it's a lovely old chair, and the customer is happy with my quote. If little jobs come in, in the meantime, I may try to fit them in around it.

06/10/2023

Wow. How long would you think people have been making baskets? 9,500 years, anyone? Aren't these wonderful? The weavers must have felt every bit as proud of their work as we would today.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-9500-year-old-woven-baskets-and-europes-oldest-sandals-180983001/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=1032023&utm_content=new&fbclid=IwAR04680OkOxr52uPtu3j2y8rUvznBLS3Wkji9shCTOH3BUigAjfkKtQDKRM

Items found in a Spanish cave are older than previously thought, a new study suggests, calling into question "simplistic assumptions" about early humans

22/09/2022

Here's my latest project. A really nice old rush seated chair, with very dark rush, which looks like it's been stained or coated with coloured varnish at some point. The seat had been accidentally damaged, but the very old rush is so brittle you can more or less pull it apart with your fingers. Seriously in need of a new seat.

I thought at first it was a simple, drop-in seat, but it's not as straightforward as that. I'll explain more as I go, but right now I'm not even sure how to get the seat out of the frame!

Won't be able to get down to it properly until next week, as I'm off with the morris dancers this weekend, but I shall keep you posted with progress.

21/09/2022

When you weave a seat with our seagrass, it's built to last. It even provides a solid solution for those cat-stacking situations.

06/09/2022

Here's another ancient Egyptian seat for you! This time a little stool, just 13cm high. I've tried to work out how the pattern, which seems pretty standard for seats of that era, would be worked. It's all on SitUpon Seats' blog.

Now here's a stool dating back to 1600 BC, from the 17th Dynasty. The wooden frame is tamarisk, and the seat is woven from rush. It's about...

03/09/2022

First blog post on the history of woven chairs is now live on our SitUpon Seats blog. Read about an ancient Egyptian chair, and my analysis of the method of working the seat.

https://situponseats.blogspot.com/2022/09/woven-seats-in-ancient-egypt-part-1.html

There will be more to come, as time allows, so watch this space!

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Woven seats go back a very long way. They have been found, still in very good condition, preserved in ancient Egyptian tombs. Now, ...

01/09/2022

I've just been working on transforming a quite ordinary little square stool into something a little more unusual, suitable for a customer who likes muted colours and calm. I hope this will make them happy!

They provided the grey paint for the frame, and I've devised a new pattern for the top, using two different materials that aren't normally found together.

Please have a look at our blog for more photos and all the details.

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