Our Whisk Brooms are available in natural (summer), black (winter), rust (spring), or Mixed (fall) colors of broomcorn. A balance between function, décor and the sacred is our purpose. The raw materials, tools and techniques used date back hundreds of years. The handles are kiln-dried hardwoods from the Ozark Mountains. The brush fiber is made of only the highest quality 100% broomcorn. Local craftsmen might make an annual batch of besoms, made of the local materials, which were indigenous to the area and sell or trade them in the local village. Before the arrival of the commercial broom company, with a very practical flat (Shaker) broom, brooms were sown round and usually left untrimmed, as it required no special equipment to do this. Every step is done by hand, from harvesting and preparing the raw materials to the finished piece. Our brooms are made of 100% organic materials. The Whisk Broom is sewn in the flat or shaker style. 14 inches tall, the Whisk Broom is the most functional and durable hand broom available. Made of 100% broomcorn and kiln dried hardwoods, it is a far superior natural brush fiber than the synthetic fiber used on most Whisk Brooms today. Today, Mexico exports brooms to the United States and there are only a handful of companies here in America still making brooms.You will be amazed at the difference between a real broomcorn broom and its commercial counterparts. However, as did many things, the broom industry suffered during the great depression and not many companies survived. The whisk broom, a short-handled broom that is smaller in size, certainly has been a popular option over the years.īy the early 20th century, there were broom factories sprinkled all over the United States, with the heart of the broom-making industry in Kansas, because that is where there was an abundance of corn. These options made cleaning much easier for so many. For example, people could purchase smaller brooms for tight spaces such as around the fireplace or larger brooms with long handles were used to sweep the floors. There were flat brooms and circle brooms and short brooms and long brooms – all used for different tasks. As time went on, people were presented with a variety of “broom options”. You can read more about how brooms were made here. The machine helped to bind the sorghum together so that the broom would not fall apart. The foot-treadle broom machine changed the way that brooms were made for good. The solution to this problem was invented a few years later. By the early 1800s, the farmer was making/producing brooms for the public but he continued to dream of creating a broom that would not fall apart. His wife loved this gift because it swept better than other brooms during that time, but it would ultimately fall apart, as brooms of that time inevitably did. As the story goes, in late 1700s, a loving farmer made a broom for his wife out of sorghum (also known as ‘broom corn’ today) and gave it to her as a gift. It wasn’t until about 1797 that the ‘modern broom’ came to be. Such simple brooms date back to biblical times and while useful, these unrefined brooms would fall apart easily. These crude brooms were used for tasks like sweeping up ash from around the fire. In fact, the word ‘broom’ is derived from Anglo-Saxon England during the Early Modern Period and means “thorny shrub.” The earliest documented brooms were simple twigs and brush tied together and attached to a stick. Simply put, a broom is a cleaning tool that is made of stiff bristles and has a handle.
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