What Kind of Seat? I have a customer who thinks that this chair originally had a rush seat. Any ideas/suggestions I can offer them?

I knew that it was not possible to have been a seat woven onto that frame! She really likes rush, so I will explain the options to her. Thanks so much. 😊

No possibility it was a rush seat. A rush seat (natural or otherwise) needs to have 4 rungs that can be woven around. Not cane either. No holes for hand cane and no groove for pressed cane. It may have had a "slip" seat of some kind. Needlepoint on a frame, or upholstery on a frame. Or even a woven seat of some kind that was then nailed in place. Definitely not anything woven onto the existing frame. You may want to show your customer some pictures of rush-seat chairs. A google search will show you many, many examples. -- Best of luck with this! -- Mical