Broom Making Materials

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Broom making materials.

Once the sassafras is harvested and dried each branch is cut to size and holes are drilled. Bundles are grouped together in a bale weighing about 120 lb 54 kg. Materials b twine and or wire. The broom making process sorting the broom corn.

Basket reed and splints. Test wooden handle 18 inches. Pine handles can be purchased from. Broomcorn about 2 3 pounds per broom 18 nylon cord for tying hemp string for sewing 20 lb.

The bundles are sorted by length and are sorted by the color of the fiber. Broom corn is tied to the handle with twine or wire. Broom corn tassels twine or wire a wooden handle or stick scissors. The broom is a purifier so it is connected to the element of water in some magical traditions but others associate it with air.

Things you will need. You need the broom kit here s what it includes. The raw material for the broom the broomcorn comes into the factory already processed and bundled. 18 or larger 20 pound waxed hemp string wooden handle scissors knife drill tensioning apparatus large needle sewing clamp lighter.

The shakers were the first to use wire to. It is not uncommon to meet witches who have broom collections and it is fairly easy to make your own besom if you don t wish to buy one. Materials 2 to 3 pounds of broom corn about 45 heads nylon cord no. Many craft broom makers weave the stalks of the broom corn around the handle.

The process begins on a sunny day when we take our broom corn outside and sort it by size and. Craft broomstraw raw broomcorn processed broomcorn artisan tools needles broom making supplies nylon and hemp twine tinned. Preparing the broom handle.