How To Repair Broken Rush Chair

I repaired a hole in my rush seating with a quick patch.

It took me but a few minutes with my handy glue gun to fill in the pigsty and make my chair as expert as new.

And so yesterday, I was sitting in my kitchen, working on some writing pieces, when my daughter jumped up from her chair at the island with an audible moan.

What'south wrong?

Something pinched me.

She said this looking at her stool.

When she looked back at me with a forlorn expression, I knew it wasn't skilful.

The seat broke.

Oh no.

I was agape of that. Apparently, with all the chairs that get broken in our house, sitting is a contact sport.

After xv plus years, a strand of the rush in my dearest Pottery Barn Napoleon stool had just worn away and snapped in two.

Leaving behind a hole.

Fabled.

Now, I can stitch and paint and drill and nail, simply the one thing I know ~ without a dubiousness ~ that I cannot do, is repair rush seating. I've seen it done and it's way beyond my skill set up.

It's not necessarily considering of the weaving itself, I get the process, just it has to be washed in a precise fashion that will stand the test of time. Information technology's a skill and an fine art form.

Definitely not a super easy DIY, the kind I'm used to tackling myself, and then this Exquisitely Unremarkable girl was out.

No big deal. I called the repair shop.

The nice human on the telephone gave me an estimate of $200.

Yeah. I was back in.

When I couldn't observe anything applicative on Google, I started examining the seat myself.

I figured I could exercise something to patch it, even if it was only a short term kind of set.

So I dug in.

Commencement, I checked out the construction.

I knew that pulling the broken strand out could potentially cause a major unraveling result.

I flipped the chair over to peek, and luckily, the broken piece's counterpart underneath the seat was very long and it was firmly anchored. If I cut it, nothing else would exist affected.

Perfect.

I could remove the broken piece from the bottom and since it was long enough, use it every bit a patch.

Here'south the affair.

I am no professional and 99% of the DIYs I attempt are trial and error, but my philosophy is, if information technology's non an heirloom, looks like it could exist a quick job and I am going to have to pay someone else large bucks to fix it, why not try it on my own.

What'southward the worst that could happen?

I may exist paying a slightly larger repair bill?

Or I'd accept to purchase these new chairs instead?

I could bargain with that.

And so I decided to requite it a shot.

I pulled that piece through and cut it away from the chair.

So I grabbed the broken piece from the superlative of the seat and trimmed it.

There was a difficult center and several strands of softer fabric that wrapped around that inner support.

I separated the strands from the support and cutting the house inner pieces away.

I wanted to keep the outer strands to wrap around the patch slice, to cover-up the joined area.

Next, I threaded one end of the patch piece through the center to the lesser of the chair and laid the rest of it down in the hole created past the pause.

It fit together like a puzzle. I anchored it with A LOT of hot glue.

Then I gently wrapped those soft strands that I had freed upwardly earlier around the finish of the new slice, so it looked similar information technology fit in the space and glued the heck out of that, too.

Of course, I burned myself in the process, because I was using my fingers to smooth the glue downwardly.

Not smart.

That's only near the time that my husband came into the room and suggested I use the dorsum of a razor blade to practice that and the front end of the razor bract to trim away whatever backlog fibers.

He is smart.

So that's what I did.

Finally, I turned the chair upside down and glued the piece in place from there, too.

Is it perfect?

No.

Would you lot notice the repair if you came over and didn't know almost it?

No fashion.

Will it last?

We'll encounter.

We use these chairs every day, but information technology'southward pretty solid correct at present.

Update! It's 2021 and the patch has held up bang-up. I nonetheless have these chairs and nosotros notwithstanding sit in them every single day.

Of form, if y'all have whatever helpful tips for me or take actually re-rushed (is that a word?) or repaired a chair, I would love to hear nearly information technology.

I know that this is the start of the end for these Pottery Barn stools and while I absolutely adore them, I practice not want to invest four hundred bucks for a fix.

Would you?

Oh and similar I said, the sitting gets rough effectually here, so hither are some other recent chair repairs.

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