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  • About our work
  • Gallery
  • All about wicker
    • Intro: All about wicker – everything you wanted to know
    • 2: Wicker in the Ancient World (3000 B.C. – 476 A.D.)
    • 3: Rattan’s Rise and the Age of Colonial Trade
    • 4: The Golden Age of Cane and the effect of American Industrialization and Victorian styling
    • 5: Weaving Through Disruption: War, Innovation, and the Lloyd Loom
    • Wicker in 20th-Century Design Movements
    • The Age of Engineered Synthetics
    • Manufacturing and Future Outlook for the wicker industry
    • Sources used in this research
  • Services
  • What our customers say
  • Shop – request your quotes here.
  • Make contact
    • Social Media
  • General
  • Discussions
    • Why come to Rattan and Riempie for restoration?
    • Difference between riempie, wicker and rattan
    • Care & Maintenance: Heritage Furniture
      • Don’t let your furniture’s story end on the dump!
    • Converting handwoven rattan to webbing? Don’t, and here is proof why
    • Caring for your white riempies
      • White Riempie DIY
    • What is Patina? And why should you leave it?
    • The Enduring Art of Riempie Chairs: Understanding the Difference Between Raw and White Alum Riempies

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Thonet bentwood rocker rebuild - broken seat. Rebuilt/laminated the seat, routered a groove for the webbing and attached webbing. Resprayed to match.
Thonet bentwood rocker rebuild - broken seat. Rebuilt/laminated the seat, routered a groove for the webbing and attached webbing. Resprayed to match.
Thonet bentwood rocker rebuild
Thonet bentwood rocker rebuild
This bench belonged to Piet Retief, and is an excibition piece at the Voortrekker Monument. Rattan and Riempie restored the woven seats July 2024.
This bench belonged to Piet Retief, and is an excibition piece at the Voortrekker Monument. Rattan and Riempie restored the woven seats July 2024.
Bentwood rocker, rattan repaired
Bentwood rocker, rattan repaired
Black Riempies, Repairing a James Mudge chair
Black Riempies, Repairing a James Mudge chair
Wrapped chair - twisted seagrass
Wrapped chair - twisted seagrass
Cane webbing
Cane webbing
Colored Riempies
Colored Riempies
Raw riempie 25meterX-6mm
Raw riempie 25meterX-6mm
Colored Riempies
Colored Riempies
Dining chairs webbing and vinyl seats redone
Dining chairs webbing and vinyl seats redone
Plantation chairs, renewed
Plantation chairs, renewed
Complete restoration. Removed brushed on varnish, stained and sprayed with a high quality gloss laquer and replaced the riempies
Complete restoration. Removed brushed on varnish, stained and sprayed with a high quality gloss laquer and replaced the riempies
Sandveldt bench, new judu riempie
Sandveldt bench, new judu riempie
White rimepies on chair
White rimepies on chair
Handwoven rattan seats on bentwood chair
Handwoven rattan seats on bentwood chair
Cane webbing replaced on seats
Cane webbing replaced on seats
Cane webbing replaced, seats and backs
Cane webbing replaced, seats and backs
Small side table - customer was about to dump it
Small side table - customer was about to dump it
Riempie chairs
Riempie chairs

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