Weaving a Cane Seat (Ep 16 - Cedar Strip Canoe Build)

In this video I show how I weave cane on the seats I made for my cedar strip canoe. *The last 20 seconds of the video is time lapse* of the weaving process - watching that a couple times might make the process make more sense... Process: Soak the strands of cane in room temperature water for about 15 minutes before you weave with them. Soaking them makes them more flexible and also a little bit stretchy. When the cane dries it will tighten up a little bit where ever you weave it. If you soak it for more than a half an hour I’ve heard the cane starts to discolor. *LAYER 1* is a vertical layer. Start in the middle and leave about 4 inches hanging down from where you start. Pull the cane across (shiny side up) and put it in the corresponding hole across from where you started. Feed it down that hole, up the hole next to it, across to the other side, and continue like this to one side of the seat. Then go back to where you started and feed it the other side. *LAYER 2* is a horizontal - pretty much