I agreed to help a family member restore a chair with a splint seat and I'd like to get it as close to the original as possible. The splint seat is gone but we remember it was originally woven from quarter inch binder cane in a diagonal pattern. According to _The Caner's Handbook,_ you begin weaving splint seats by tacking or tying one end of the cane or splint to the back of the chair rail, then wrapping it around the front and back rungs to make the warp strands, then tacked or tied to the other side rail. Warp splints are joined by stapling. _The Caner's Handbook_ doesn't elaborate on the tying method or on any other way to join warp binder cane other than stapling. The chair doesn't show any signs that the warp splints were ever tacked onto the rails. I don't recall ever seeing any evidence of tying, so it had to be hidden. I also don't recall any staples used on the bottom. I've thought about notching and lashing the warp strands, but I don't recall this used on the original seat. Nor do I recall seeing signs of canes tied to the side rails. Has anyone here run into this? Is the warp strand attached to the side rails by lashing or by tying the cane itself? Can warp strands be joined by lashing? Thanks in advance, Kevin Cheek