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 ...

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?

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 ...

In your article on chair caning [“A Good Caning Can Change a Bad Chair,” Aug. 23], you omitted Cane and Basket Supply Co. in midcity L.A. [1283 S. Cochran Ave., (323) 939-9644, www.canebasket.com].