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A post and rung chair is a stick chair with a fiber seat. It has cylindrical mortises bored into vertical posts to receive the ends of horizontal rungs. Then the chair is first assembled, the posts contain more moisture than the rungs. The chair is held together by the shrinking of the posts around
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