I bought loads of those bergere chairs , especially the ones with the cane damaged , my wife taught herself how to re cane them and she would always have one on the go in the shop .The amount of times people would stop and watch & then end up ordering it when it was finished or bringing in chairs they had for repair , few years back now but I’m sure it worked out 50p a hole ..
The sofa’s where a nightmare but you could buy them for pennies if they were damaged , I would clean and re
polish the wood and she would re cane it , and an upholsterer who rented space in the shop sorted