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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 229620, member: 44&quot;]No one has really answered your question on when H-W stopped doing wicker furniture probably because this chair is not wicker connected, at ieast not what one thinks is wicker furniture. The seat was no doubt what is called a cane seat which is probably a form of wicker but nerver called wicker. H-W was still making wicker furnture when they were making solid wood furniture. According to the following website, Haywood-Wakefield stopped making wicker furniture in the 1930s but continued making hardwood furnirure into the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Wicker furnishings changed with the invention of the Lloyd loom in 1917, which allowed wicker to be woven faster. Heywood-Wakefield purchased the patented loom in 1920. As the economy slowed and manufacturers turned out inferior quality wicker at lower prices, it began to lose its appeal. Heywood-Wakefield stopped making wicker in the 1930s, although the firm produced hardwood furniture into the &#039;50s.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>About the 6th paragraph down:</p><p><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-10-23/news/9410230035_1_wicker-furniture-cyrus-wakefield-wakefield-rattan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-10-23/news/9410230035_1_wicker-furniture-cyrus-wakefield-wakefield-rattan" rel="nofollow">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-10-23/news/9410230035_1_wicker-furniture-cyrus-wakefield-wakefield-rattan</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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