Seven Pass Seat

Most cane seats are abandoned at the same moment: somewhere around the fourth pass, when the strands stop making sense and the holes all look alike. Seven Pass Seat is the friend at the bench who has done it a hundred times. Measure the hole line of your chair, pick the cane size, and the app lays out the whole seat for you — how many holes, how far apart, where to start, and how much cane and binder to buy. Then it walks you through all seven passes, one at a time. Watch each pass weave itself across the seat, or trace it with your finger from hole to hole: the right hole clicks, the wrong one tugs the strand back. By the time you pick up real cane, your hands already know the way. Weaving a new piece instead? Drag the corner of the frame to its real size — seat, back, armrests, a whole garden sofa — choose the ribbon or reed and the pattern, and see the length, the weight and the…