What parts of the chair are wood and what is fabric? You could upload a picture to photobucket and post a link. This way everyone can get a look at the chair and you can get the best answer possible. assuming it is simply the seat. look on the underside. Sometimes the upholstered parts of the chair are fabric around a piece of foam atop wood. This is usually fixed into place with screws from the underside of the chair.

Wood joints need some clamping pressure to work well when glued. You can use clamps, tightly tied rope, or even weight. If the rockers are left out year round and were designed/built to be indoors furniture, the temp/humidity changes may be too much. Try the Titebond as recommended with clamping pressure---cures in 24 hours. If the joints still separate, get different rockers.

I have spent some money and some time to resurface my traditional office desk which already has a layer of stain and poly. It has few scratched and peeling, so I need to sand it down and redo the surface. I followed all instructions and still having bubble on top of the newly applied polyurethane. Finally, I created my own method. - Clean up and remove all dust on the surface of the wood, in my case, it is the table top of my office desk. - Apply oil based polyurethane with stain color with brush; I used the cheap $1.25 bristle brush from Lowe's. I chose polyurethane with stain color in it. You can choose different color at Lowe’s and it also has gloss and satin (semi gloss) choices. Apply a thick layer on the surface of the wood or on my office desk in my case. There should be many bubbles on the top. Some suggest using heat gun while applying so the bubbles pop and disappear, I have not tried that because I don’t have a heat gun. I ignore the bubbles there for now. Then let it dry thoroughly after few hours or next day. - Sand the surface with very fine 300 or higher sand paper with an electric hand sander. Sand out all bubbles on surface as much as possible. It will scratch the entire surface, don't worry. But do not sand too deep, we still want the polyurethane and the stain on the surface. It is very difficult to remove all trace of bubbles, I stopped when most bubbles are not noticeable. When sanding with electric sander, make sure you sand fully the surface, do not sand with an angle off the wood and do not create track or ditch on the wood. - Clean up and remove all dust on the surface. I use web cloth, and then dry paper towel. Let it dry before next step. - Now mix the poly (with build-in stain color) with mineral spirit in about 5 to 1 ratio. Apply the mixture on the surface again. Do not uses brush this time. Use a paper towel and fold it into a square 2"x2" shape. Then wrap it with a fine cloth, I use silk cloth in my case. Use it to apply the mixture on top of the wood surface. The mixture must be thin enough so that you can swipe across surface without resistance. Add more mineral spirit if necessary. Follow the wood grain and "sail" along the surface with the cloth. Make sure the mixture cover entire surface. - Now let it dry. The surface should be shiny again. You could repeat above step if necessary until you have an almost smooth wood surface or table top. The stain in the poly will create darker or lighter color on the wood surface, that is ok and that is nice. - You are not done. Now mix the oil based fast drying polyurethane with mineral spirit and use new cloth and paper towel to apply one more layer on the wood. Again, make sure the mixture is thin enough and your cloth is fully absolve with the mixture. Apply the mixture to entire surface, you don't need to follow wood grain direction this time. You make sure the entire surface is wet. After it is dry, you can apply 2nd layer until the wood surface is smooth enough for you. Notice that this fast drying poly will deepen the color of your surface. The more layer you apply, the deeper the color. It takes a few days :-)

Perfect! Love the way your cute pup is still sitting in the chair in the after just like the original post. It is hard to see him/her bc of the coloring of his/her fur. Such a cutie. Perfect room. When I am coming to stay? ;)