Craig Williams does furniture repair, restoration and French polishing in his workshop at Bankfoot, just north of Perth.
He reweaves cane, rush and cord seats, and makes new pieces to order. The easiest way to start is to send him a photo by text.
Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews on Yell.
The small photo is the before: a twin pedestal D-end table on dust sheets in the client’s dining room, waiting for work to start.
The large one is the after. The top has its deep, even shine back, and the ladder-back chairs are round it again by the fire.
A table dropped by the removal men. Chairs left marked after water got to them. A nursery chair with the cane gone through. The pieces people bring to Craig matter because of who sat at them, and he treats them that way.
He recovered and restored a loved piece of family history.
Review on Yell
My Uncle Charles’ nursery chair was in a sad state. Scruffy, loose inlay and a seat that needed re-caning big-time.
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He restored the table and chairs to beyond my expectations.
Review on Yell
Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews on Yell (archived June 2025).
All types of furniture, old and modern: lifting veneer, split tops, broken joints, chips, marks and tired finishes.
Traditional French polishing and modern finishes, from a wee tea table to the dining table the whole family sits round.
Chair caning, bergère, rush and cord seats, woven by hand.
Tables, benches, beds and fitted shelving, made to order in the Bankfoot workshop.
Its tall straw back was still sound, but the seat had worn right through. Craig kept the back and wove a new rush seat.
Veneer lifting and missing along the edges. Relaid, then polished.
You don’t need to know what’s wrong with it or what it’s made of.
A few photos from your phone tell Craig most of what he needs. Add your name and roughly where you are, and he’ll come back to you with what he thinks.
Bankfoot sits on the old A9 between Perth and Dunkeld. Craig has customers from Perth, Dunkeld and Birnam, Blairgowrie, Pitlochry, Crieff and the villages in between.
Perth had more than six hundred wrights at work between 1700 and 1840. Craig keeps the same trade going, a few miles up the road.