| Subject: | Re: A Question of Cane
| | Date: | Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:17:16 +0100
| | From: | Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
| | Newsgroups: | rec.antiques
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:24:25 GMT, "EGD" <emailnotworking@news.net>
wrote:
>I have been doing a little research on when cane backs and seats first might
>have appeared in furniture in Europe. I have found some from the middle of
>the 17th Century. Would any have appeared earlier than that?
What do you regard as "cane" ? My refs agree on the Restoration for
caning with coarse-woven panels, but I think close-woven rushes are
older - tudor oak period.
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