Repairing and refinishing are a large part of what we do at Hawg Country Furniture Restoration. One of the specialties we strive to accomplish is chair caning/rush/weaving. There are very few places left that have the ability and the know-how to bring back these chairs and rocking chairs to their original style and form. We can refinish the entire chair or just do the cane/rush replacement for your particular piece.
There are many, many of our old trades and professions that are becoming extinct due to the lack of knowledge being passed down from generation to generation. For whatever reason most people do not learn the jobs and gain the skills and knowledge that their parents and grandparents used to make life more comfortable. Perhaps it is because we have become such a disposable society that we no longer care for our possessions as our forebears did - or because of our excesses do we believe that there will always be more and cheaper merchandise for us to purchase? In the past people would work long and hard to be able to buy quality furniture, or the materials to make the furniture. Then they would preserve that furniture, by refinish or repair, so that it would last a lifetime or two. Quality furniture will do just that if properly maintained. (Our disposable society requires less quality in exchange for lower prices so replacement becomes the norm - instead of maintenance!)
In our business we would rather bring back the furniture piece with its history and family ties and stories instead of seeing these fantastic pieces destroyed and lost forever. We are losing enough of our history as time goes on and this is our effort to help those that follow to understand who they are and where they came from - and how those that came before them lived. Please try to save as much of your family history in furniture as you can - it may just come back into style!