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Title: never cane a chair with this book!
Review: Ruth B. Comstock was a Cornell University professor who wrote Cornell Bulletins on many useful home "do it yourself projects" most types of seats covered in this book (which is just a collection of her bulletins) are adequate and you can learn enough to weave a fine chair seat (Rush, Splint or Sea Grass), however she was never a professional chair caner and her directions for a cane bottom chair are incorrect. While it is possible to cane a seat with this book your final product will be less then perfect and unprofessional. Sadly the majority of chairs you see today have these mistakes as a result of Ruth's writings. Do yourself a favor and buy the more expensive book written by a professional weaver. Ruth was a professional teacher but a novice weaver. If you learn from a novice you cannot expect to rise to the level of professional!
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