JWoods Wicker Repair and Restoration

04/16/2023

SPRING!!!

01/04/2021

I did it! I entered the DWR champagne chair contest. Here is my entry. This was so much fun to do!
You can only use the foil, cage, cap and cork to create a chair.
My chair is a working egg chair with a woven shell. And yes...it swings. 😁
Wish me luck!

08/21/2019

Jill Woods is retiring from the wicker repair business!

For your wicker repair needs visit my website for contact information for some of my students doing wicker repair now in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

Taking over for me in West Michigan:
Jessica Miller
517-240-3772
[email protected]

To share in my new ventures follow my page JWoods Enterprises as I will no longer be updating my wicker repair page.

Thank you all for all of your interest and support over the past many years and I look forward to seeing you on my JWoods Enterprises page.

Pattern Making • Build Prototypes • Partner with Product Development ​Work from CAD Images • Work from artist/designer concept sketches

07/27/2019

I had much fun creating this butterfly for our SeatWeavers’ Gathering! It will be on display at our public demonstration event at the Douglas Old Schoolhouse Museum on Sunday July 28th.
Come see our chairs, 1 - 4 pm
130 Center Street
Douglas MI 49408

07/16/2019

In the news! The Gathering is only a week away now. July 26-28. Our Annual Gathering will be in my territory, West Michigan. I am so looking forward to seeing my fellow seaters there!
For more infor, and to register, go to www.seatweaversguild.org or come just for our public day with a great display of chairs and demonstrations from 1-4pm on Sunday July 28 at the Old School House Museum in Douglas MI.

06/21/2019

My Ox Bow Art on the Meadow Class finished today. My students did such a fantastic job of designing and executing their baskets!

06/17/2019

I finished installing the cane on the 4 chairs made by the Kindel Furniture Company of Grand Rapids. These chairs are part of the restoration of the Henry Ford Estate in Detroit, based on photos of the original chairs in the Ford’s home. A very interesting and challenging job. I will definitely have to go see them when they are installed in the exhibit.

06/17/2019

The OxBow Art on The Meadow class on splint weaving on a stool went very well today! My students were amazing!
Tomorrow they start on their baskets. I can’t wait to see what they create!

05/13/2019

I will be teaching a splint stool and basket in a 4 day workshop at Ox Bow School of Art in Saugatuck this June. Here is a link to the Ox Bow site. Hope you can join us. I am really looking forward to this event at Ox Bow!

Art on the Meadow Workshops

05/08/2019

We loaded up our booth at the Resale Place in Allegan! Come check it out!

05/08/2019

Project completed.