Painted Hitchcock chair needing a new seat and tightening up of all joints. It also needs a new bent edge band around the seat. Here is how I bent the replacement:
The steamer set up at right is a pvc tube with steam pushed in the low end by a kettle on a camping stove. Below right I have pulled the end cap showing the blank in the steam. This is pulled and quickly wrapped around a premade form, below center, and clamped in place and left for a few days  to take the shape while other work was done. Below left is the chair re-woven and ready for the band to be installed, trimmed and finally, painted to match.

This is one of a set of six woven rush seat chairs I recently restored. They all needed new rush seats, and varying amounts of wood repair. Most needed partial disassembly and re-gluing. This one had a break through the leg where the seat rails were inserted. This is a weak spot and after many years of use, it gave way.

To repair this I inserted both a dowel through the center of the leg, but also let in a piece of maple from a couple inches above the break to several inches below.

The completed repair at left. If you look carefully you can see the outline of the piece that was let in to reinforce the leg across the break.
Above are the first three chairs after applying shellac to the seats and touching up the finish. They are ready to go home.