In July 2019, we moved to a flat where we took up head tenancy. This meant we needed to get a lot of things--like a washing machine, a fridge, and chairs. We got everything secondhand.
When I saw this chair in an op-shop window, I took a liking to it. These retro low chairs are great for using with my spinning wheel--they are just far enough off the ground to be comfortable, and not so tall that you have to reach to treadle.
When (after weeks of consideration), I finally decided to go check it out, I saw that it was broken! The burlap that had covered the chair bottom was torn apart by the spring, and it had actually impaled the seat cushion--hopefully no one was sitting on it at the time!
The metal sheath holding the spring to the chair frame had snapped, so we replaced it with a new one my husband forged and drilled out specially for this purpose. It was a two-person job to wrestle the spring back into place, pre-drill the holes and get the screws in, but I am so glad I did. It’s been a great little chair for the past year I’ve owned it, and the mend has held just fine. And it only cost $5 in total, just the price of the chair. We had broken scrap wood, scrap metal and old screws from other projects.
