Aluminum lawn chairs webbing Patch#

Here are the basic details in case you decide to go in for a lawn chair rescue as the weather warms up. A few months later, it’s still holding up. I followed the basic instructions from Lawnchair USA, pushing the metal clips through the cotton tape just like I would have the nylon.

After weaving one seat and not loving it, I tucked the chair into the closet for a few months and busied myself with other projects, but in February I pulled it out and tried again, this time using cotton twill tape and a new set of lawn chair clips. My original plan was to recreate a basketweave seat out of cotton clothesline, but I found the weave to be too bulky to feel comfortable. I scoured sidewalks for a cast-off folding chair to spruce up all summer, and put out a call on our local Buy Nothing Group, but it wasn’t until we moved in September that I found what I’d been searching for: a lightweight aluminum folding chair with nylon webbing that had started to fray. We’d bring colored chalk and balls and send up small blessings for a nearby spot to get out late-day wiggles.

Aluminum lawn chairs webbing Patch#

We still lived in our old apartment, four flights up without a patch of outdoor space to call our own and so in the afternoons we’d walk the kids around the block to a stretch of wide sidewalk in front a shuttered school building.

Last spring, when the weather warmed but the virus still raged out of control and playgrounds and parks were closed, I dreamed of a folding lawn chair.