Old Rush Seat Chairs. The strands of rush are stretched across the seat and looped around the rails moving in a counterclockwise direction to fill in the seat. Rush seats can be handsome on colonial and country style chairs but worn rush seats may benefit from a change or replacement.
Another thing that figures into this is the size or gauge of rush you are using. 10 pound reel of fibre rush size 6 32 enough for 4 seats kraft brown fiber rush ladderback chairs seating material 6 32 4 7 out of 5 stars 12 39 95 39. Coils of rush to do a 14 wide chair seat.
Of course every chair is different in size so requires a different amount of rush to weave but a general rule of thumb is that it takes two 1 lb.
Rush seats can be handsome on colonial and country style chairs but worn rush seats may benefit from a change or replacement. 10 pound reel of fibre rush size 6 32 enough for 4 seats kraft brown fiber rush ladderback chairs seating material 6 32 4 7 out of 5 stars 12 39 95 39. Another thing that figures into this is the size or gauge of rush you are using. The strands of rush are stretched across the seat and looped around the rails moving in a counterclockwise direction to fill in the seat.