Hand and Hearth Broom Crafting
Two-day Course
Friday May 22 – Saturday May 23 (10:00am – 5:00pm both days)
Instructor: Amy Lou Taylor
In this two-day course you will learn how to craft your own hand and hearth brooms; from four inches in length, to four feet. At the end of the course, you will walk away with 10 fully functional handmade brooms.
You will make four kitchen tools (cake tester, pot scrubber, root vegetable scrubber, and counter whisk), a triple whisk, a turkey wing whisk, a round whisk with woven handle, a hawks tail whisk, a short cobweb broom, and a flat (stitched) broom on a broomstick.
You will not only garner broom making knowledge and skills, but learn simple broom magic, and the history behind the designs and uses of these versatile tools.
If you wish, bring charms or amulets to decorate your brooms.
Note: This will be a physical weekend, best suited for adults 18+ or, if younger, chaperoned by an adult. You should be able to work from a seated position for more than an hour at a time, and be comfortable using your upper body, core abdominal muscles, arms, hands and wrists to perform repetitive tasks while winding and weaving parts of the brooms.
$380.00
$80 material fee
























