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This chair is white peeled willow on red barked River Birch, sitting on a red-tiled floor against a cedar wall. Pretty standard willow chair design, easily made into a rocker. They can vary quite a bit if you’ve the imagination & time, I’ll show some from a master in another post. When I started, my tipi was down by the river next to a shed, which is where I would work. Eventually when I built Mud Manor in Colorado I would build things in the living room, until I added on some shop space. I was a lousy salesman/marketer and gave several away just to make room for more, but I did sell enough to keep me off food stamps. There are lots of kinds of willows, some bend easier than others. These were gathered along irrigation ditches, which the ranchers didn’t mind. They peel easily if you get them early in the summer, or you can leave the bark on, which is initially green, but turns red with age. You can use anything for the frame, I like the looks of the red birch. The frames are just screwed together with sheetrock screws of appropriate length, & the willow nailed on with panel nails. pre-drill the holes before nailing. Finish these with a few coats of thinned linseed oil.