What is the difference between hand caning and prewoven caning?
Prewoven caning comes on a roll with the desired pattern woven into it much a like a roll of fabric. It comes in a number of different sizes and patterns and is cut to size, soaked in a water solution for a number of hours, and pressed in to a continuous groove that goes around an opening. Then a spline of wood is glued and pressed into that groove to hold the caning in place. Hand Caning comes in a hank or bundle of individual strands and must be hand woven in a specific sequence to achieve the desired pattern. A hand caned area has small holes all the way around the opening to allow the weaving of the individual strands in and out to secure the caning.
