Weaving a Danish Cord Seat: Finishing Up
Long strands woven side to side complete this distinctive seat.
A woven Danish-cord seat is ideal for many modern or chairs, benches, and stools. The cord, actually tightly rolled brown paper, resembles rush or raffia. Special L-shaped nails, evenly spaced on the insides of the seat rails, hold the cord tight. In this three-part series, Mark Edmundson shows how to create the weave, step-by-step. Find links to the other video steps in this series below.
For the final step in a Danish-cord weave, a loop of cord goes over and under the shorter warp strands. Watch Edmundson complete the weave and explain how to keep the cord taut and evenly spaced.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Mark Edmundson, a graduate of the College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking program, shows how to create a distinctive woven seat on a bench inspired by a classic Danish design.
| ON VIDEO: STEP-BY-STEP WEAVING |
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Step One: Wrapping Front to Back This covers most of the rail with cord |
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Step Two: Wrapping Side to Side Evenly spaced cord creates a foundation for the final weaving |
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Now Playing Step Three: Finishing Up Long strands woven side to side complete this distinctive seat |
Comments
Excellent video!
Hey Mark
I made your bench. You forgot a critical point. On the long stands, you need to use each nail twice! Redoing my weaving now.
Ha! I wish I'd read the comments prior to weaving halfway on the long (side to side) weave before undoing the work and proceeding with using both nails twice. I don't know if there's variability in the diameter of Danish cord, but the material I used did not completely fill the space between the upper stretchers. The plans called for 1" spacing and 5 wraps between each nail - that left a small gap in my final product. I'd guess that 5-6 additional wraps would have made things perfect (so, slightly less than 1" spacing). Otherwise really enjoyed the project!
Really enjoying the videos and they are a big help for completing the weave. Thanks for the previous comments as well regarding the long strands and hooking the nails twice. I'm about to start that process and was wondering if the nails get hooked once or twice. Also, I'm fairly certain that the first video mentioned wrapping the long weave rails requires about 20 feet of cord....I think it's more like 60 feet. I'd caution against cutting just 20 feet of cord without a test wrap of say 1/3 of the rail length then checking how much cord it takes to do that.
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