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Those handmade whisk brooms you love? You can DIY them So good you’ll actually want to use it — for soil drops, seed spills, cobwebs and more. By Kristin Guy. Published July 28, 2022 4:00PM (EDT) ...
Brooms made of natural materials, shaped by hand and tied with string might seem old-fashioned and quaint, but the craft is growing in popularity. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.
A broom is an essential cleaning tool that dates back centuries—in fact, the broom may be the oldest cleaning tool in ...
What would you say is special about a handmade broom? Every time I pick up a broom to sweep my shop, I think of the sapling at the cabin I helped build last summer that’s now the handle of my broom.
Handmade brooms | On The Pennsylvania Road Newswatch 16's Jon Meyer stops by a new store in Sullivan County that only sells handmade brooms. To stream WNEP on your phone, you need the WNEP app.
Handmade brooms by Cynthia Main hang on display on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at Sunhouse Craft in Berea. “We don’t want to become distributors, but we do want to grow everything that we use in ...
Broom handles can be anything from driftwood to oak sticks used to dry tobacco leaves in Kentucky barns that can be more than 100 years old. No two Wicked Brooms are alike.
I call it broomstraw. Others broomsedge. Whatever you call it, it doesn’t kill my memories of my grandmother’s homemade brooms. About a yardstick long, they stood in corners throughout the ...
A Handmade Future. The day I visited the Sunhouse Craft shop, Main and another broom maker, Bethany Marker, were in the sunny front room experimenting with new styles. Marker was winding rope around a ...
Homemade Broom Making Instructions Check out these easy to follow homemade broom making instructions. Get a list of all the handmade broom making supplies you will need!
"I've made a lot of brooms in my lifetime," Warren said. For 24 years now, his business, called Countrybrooms, has become a staple on the same corner at the Kutztown Folk Festival.
Rural arts programs helped Eastern Kentucky maker Cynthia Main develop Sunhouse Craft, a sustainable business with an Appalachian sense of place. Main’s origin story parallels that of many small ...