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Our Mission – To enhance the quality of life of those we serve If you have a cane, walker or other medical supplies that you wish to donate, the following Southeastern Wisconsin community organizations would value receiving your durable medical equipment. Please contact them directly to arrange for your drop off. Your donation is greatly appreciated! 540 South First Street Independence First Mobility Store (Accepts Wheelchairs, Scooters and other Mobility Devices) 12040 West Feerick Street, Unit N 404 Wilmont Drive, Unit D 700 West State Street Order of Malta Federal Association (Accepts Gently Used Medical Equipment) Miller, McGinn and Clark, S.C. 788 North Jefferson Street Reggie White Sleep Disorders & Research Foundation 2356 South 102 Street West Allis, WI 53227 Salvation Army Emergency Lodge 1730 North 7th Street St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care 2801 East Morgan Avenue St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
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Mesh Tub and Shower Seat With Back Multi-Purpose Grab Bar with Toilet Paper Holder Multi-Purpose Grab Bar with Towel Holder Handheld Shower Head Palm-Fit Design Secure Lock Tub Safety Bar 12" Suction Cup Grab Bar Liko Overhead Patient Lift System Back Cushion with Hot/Cold Pack Fleece Knee Pad Cover Pathlighter Adjustable Lighted Cane Harmar Summit SL600 Pinnacle Stair Lift Biofreeze Professional 360 degree Spray Biofreeze Professional Gel, colorless, 4 oz Biofreeze Professional Roll On, 3oz Comforter Lift Chair, various sizesDEER ISLE — Jackie Pelletier loves old chairs. She loves learning about their history, who made them and who sat in them, and she loves fixing them and giving them a new lease on life. Repairing chairs — in the form of re-caning them, replacing seats that have worn out or broken — is what Pelletier has done for the past 28 years. She had always liked cane chairs, having grown up with them in her native South Africa.
She was a stay-at-home mom following the birth of her oldest daughter when she saw an ad for an adult education course on caning chairs, and she said taking it seemed like “a no-brainer.” The class, taught by Anne Chase, got Pelletier started on doing her own caning projects. Early on she did perhaps a half-dozen chairs a year, but her workload grew as friends heard about what she was doing and they asked her to fix their chairs, too. “It just kind of snowballed,” she said, noting that she now averages about 150 chairs a year. Pelletier said she “always had a natural affinity toward weaving,” enjoying that process, and also considers herself a people person. Her chair-caning taps into both of those passions, as she gets to practice the weaving skills and meet the folks who come to her shop. A customer dropping off a chair is the first step in the process. Though most are delivered in-person, Pelletier will sometimes arrive home to find a chair left in her driveway with a note attached or get a phone call about it the following day.
She will look at the chair and assess what needs to be done — she can do this quickly after working with thousands of them in the past three decades — and giving the customer a firm price quote. Caning is an acquired skill and Pelletier’s customers are usually glad to pay a professional to do the work. She told of one man who came in and was put off by the price she quoted, so he took his chair and said he would do it himself. He came back a month later, she recalled with a smile, having failed in his do-it-yourself quest and “apologizing profusely.” “He told me, ‘You don’t charge enough,’” Pelletier said. Also, Pelletier cleans the chair. Depending on where it has been stored (some come from the attic, others from the basement and a few from the dump) she may wear a dust mask as she removes cobwebs and dirt from the chairs. She gives the chair “a good wash,” usually with Murphy’s oil. She will cut out the cane seat or back and, if the pattern is new to her or especially complicated, save it as a reference as she goes about her work of recreating it.
Pelletier said she loves the challenge of a unique pattern or a special piece of furniture that requires more time and thought than the typical one. She said she typically has 10 challenging projects a year. When such a project arrives, she said, she tells the customer, “I’ve never seen a chair with quite that pattern before — but I’ll figure it out for you.” Cane is split bamboo, which is usually cut and split where it is grown — typically Thailand or China — and she then purchases it from a company based in Connecticut. Cane comes in six different sizes based on thickness. From thinnest to thickest they are carriage fine, super fine, fine fine, fine, medium and common. The first three tend to be found more in antique chairs. Though she has a shop where she stores chairs that have yet to be worked on along with finished projects and her supplies, Pelletier brings the chair that she is working on at a given time inside her house. There she has a room with a large window that lets in plenty of light and gives her space to move around.
Pelletier said she knows one should not try and personify inanimate objects such as the ones she works with, but admits she sometimes finds herself thinking as she works, “Chair, I just wish you could tell me your story.” Sometimes that story is known, such as when a customer says a chair dates to the Civil War or belonged to a great-grandmother who raised 15 children. “I love hearing the history,” Pelletier said. “I enjoy thinking about what happened to that chair.” After the old cane has been cut out, Pelletier will let the new material soak in water before using it so that it is more pliable before she begins weaving it. She uses wooden pegs to hold pieces of cane in place as she works, sometimes using golf tees as well when a particular job requires a large number of pegs. Pelletier takes pride in her work, which she points out is an art form. When one watches her work it is clear that is true, as she uses the plain-looking strips of cane to create intricate patterns in the seats, backs and sometimes sides of chairs.
Along with cane, she also works with rush (a rope-like product, some of which is made out of twisted paper fibers and other that is made out of cattail plants found in swamps), reed and natural ash. Pelletier also works with pressed cane, which is pre-woven and comes in a roll much like fabric does. In that case, a section is cut out to match the shape of the seat or seat back, and then a wooden spine is pressed in a groove to hold the seat in place. Pressed cane is a newer invention, within the past 50 years or so, and cannot be used on older chairs. The reasons that chairs are brought to Pelletier vary. Some are recent purchases from an antiques store, while others have sat in an attic for years. Older customers sometimes want to make sure chairs they have are in good condition for the next generation. Younger people and four-legged family members are also factors. “Sometimes, children and pets are my best customers,” she said. Children will sometimes stand on a chair with a cane seat and put a foot through the cane when it gives out under their weight.
It is not just children, either, who will stand like that. “It always surprises me that people will stand on cane chairs,” Pelletier said. “Cane is meant to take the weight, but it’s meant to take weight that is evenly distributed.” Pets factor in because she said cats often like to sharpen their claws on a rush chair. A rush chair can be identified by four triangle sections that all taper toward a central point in the middle of the seat. In addition to fixing seats, Pelletier has also become adept at doing basic repairs to the wooden components of chairs as well. She keeps a collection of spare parts in her shop for when the need arises. Pelletier also works on a volunteer basis as an EMT with Memorial Ambulance, which she has done for the past 15 years. Though she enjoys the solitary nature of actually working to re-cane chairs, she also enjoys getting to spend time with people and working as an EMT allows her to do that. Pelletier said her busy season with chairs tends to stretch from March through December, and that she then gives herself the winter months as something of a break.
Customers include summer residents of Deer Isle and Stonington, locals from the area and people from as far away as Florida, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Wherever the chair comes from, Pelletier has a mantra she keeps in mind while she works: A chair is as good as the seat that is in it.” “That is so true,” she said. For chairs that have been neglected, either languishing in a dusty attic or tossed out with the trash, Pelletier imagines them like the title character in “The Velveteen Rabbit” feeling like they have come to their end until they are saved from oblivion and brought to her shop. “When it leaves me, it’s a happy chair,” she said with a smile. Steve Fuller has worked at i since 2012. He covers the city of Ellsworth, including the Ellsworth School Department and the city police beat, as well as the towns of Amherst, Aurora, Eastbrook, Great Pond, Mariaville, Osborn, Otis and Waltham. A native of Waldo County, he served as editor of Belfast's i prior to joining the American.