http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/71 Ethos of Making Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:06:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/71/comment-page-1#comment-96 C. Widger Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:47:06 +0000 http://www.deepcraft.org/deep/archives/71#comment-96 My parents had 3 or 4 of these identical chairs in San Rafael where I grew up, same pale yellow paint also. Rawhide was a reagional historical answer to the rush seat, very common across the West. I remember tracing the patterns of these rawhide chairs, and also in the oak caned kitchen chairs they had. The interest held to a sometime carreer as a seat weaver- highly satisfying and meditative work, pittiful pay and hard on the hands. Thank you for reviving the memories with your photos, of a little girl lying under a chair tracing patterns in the sunlight with her fingers. Clear skies! C. Widger Novato CA My parents had 3 or 4 of these identical chairs in San Rafael where I grew up, same pale yellow paint also. Rawhide was a reagional historical answer to the rush seat, very common across the West.
I remember tracing the patterns of these rawhide chairs, and also in the oak caned kitchen chairs they had. The interest held to a sometime carreer as a seat weaver- highly satisfying and meditative work, pittiful pay and hard on the hands.
Thank you for reviving the memories with your photos, of a little girl lying under a chair tracing patterns in the sunlight with her fingers.
Clear skies!
C. Widger
Novato CA

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