How To: Fix Up a Vintage Patio ChairShelterrific

How To: Fix Up a Vintage Patio Chair
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Looking to get a few more weeks out of that fabulous vintage outdoor chaise you found on ebay for ten bucks? Shelterrific, source of all things practical and helpful for the home, has a fantastic tutorial, chock full of photos, with step-by-step instructions for re-weaving the vinyl web seat on a patio chair...

After Shelterrific's Mary found this lounge chair on the sidewalk, she ordered a re-webbing kit online (a quick Google search for "re-webbing" comes up with many options). The kits come with the vinyl belts as well as metal clips or screws to secure the webbing to the chair frame.

Mary's tutorial shows you how to tell if you're going to need clips or screws, and meticulous photos depict the process of weaving and clipping the webbing onto the frame.

Click over to Shelterrific to view the full set of instructions. While you're over there you might as well peruse their amazing archive of DIY fix-it projects.

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Comments (3)

I haven't seen lawn chairs like this in years - seems like everything has gone plastic...

...it's so cool just to see this - and good to know that there are still supplies for these!

posted by bepsf on August 25th 2009 at 9:35pm
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I had no idea my parent's old chairs are now "vintage" - lol

posted by DC_Chica on August 26th 2009 at 1:15pm
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OK I've been digging and FOUND the ONE manufacturer of webbing in the US. I introduce http://waltrichplastic.com/ this company supplies the webbing to all of our standad distributors ie Ace, Walmart(>:{), Target, etc. You can email them for all available webbing and so on. Vintage enthusists rejoice!!

posted by theskip on October 29th 2009 at 11:43am
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