Re-caning Chair Seat. A cane seat to a chair makes a light, cheap, easy to clean, and attractive method of giving the necessary support. It is not difficult to recane a chair when needed although it may be tedious. Few tools are required, a sharp knife, a pointed steel awl, and a light hammer are all that are necessary, beyond a supply of cane and some wooden pegs suitable for driving into the cane holes in the chair seat. The cane is the exterior of the rattan cane, split off into strands, the widths of which differ and are graded from No. 1, the narrowest, up to No. 6 the widest, it is generally sold in about 1/2 lb. bundles in lengths of about 12 feet at an average price of 2/- per lb. The operation for caning a new chair is the same as for re-caning, except that the new chair may require that the cane holes be drilled around the seat. These would be about i-inch from the inner edges, of about 1/8-inch diameter and about 1/8-inches apart. They should be properly marked out as to position before the drilling is started. In recaning any chair, the old cane must be taken away and all the holes properly cleaned out, also the cane to be used should be well soaked for some hours. The glossy side of the cane must be on top, and it should be so used that the cane is threaded through the holes, etc., in the most freely running direction, as in one direction it may be found that the cane appears to catch on the glossy side.. Generally it will be found to make for easier working to arrange that one hand is below the seat and one above during most of the work. To keep the cost down it may help to use one size of cane only, say No. 4. Should it be desired to repeat exactly the old design then very careful examination of it should be made before it is cut away, observe whether the canes from back to front, and from side to side, are double in each hole or single, also how the canes pass and repass each other. In any case the correct way to proceed is to start from the centre hole at the back, secure by one of the wooden pegs either one or two canes in that hole, then pass the cane or canes through the centre front hole, pull tight (glossy side being on top) and hold by tapping one of the wooded pegs into that hole. Bring up the cane or canes through the next hole on the right, pass across to the hole next to the first hole used at the back, and to the right, pull tight, hold it tight by a wooden peg tapped in. Remove the wooden peg used in the hole at the front, and so proceed until the right hand half of the chair seat is filled by cane running from back to front. Do the same with the left half, secure each end by tying it underneath. Now proceed in the same manner with the canes running from side to side, starting from the centre for each half and working outwards either to the front or back in each case. If the cane is being used double then each should be passed alternately over and under the canes it passes at right angles. Next come the canes running diagonally from corner to corner across the seat, the same method is used, and the cane (single now) is passed alternately over and under the canes it passes at an angle The ends of the canes are tied securely, and the edging is started; for this a wider cane is generally used, although the narrow can be taken, starting from one corner the cane is run to the next corner, and so on round the seat, the cane being firmly pegged down into the corner holes. Then pass a cane up the second hole from a corner, pass it over the edging cane and down through the hole again, secure the first end underneath, draw the other end tight, and pass it on to the next hole but one, and repeat, and so on round the seat edge. If care be taken to properly secure all ends, pull all canes tight, thread properly, peg properly to hold tight, make a neat and well secured edging, and only use cane of good appearance and in good condition then the results will be satisfactory, but the operation is not suited for impatient workers.