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Date & Time: February 21-22, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm each day
Total cost of class: $330
This is: $320 class fee (paid upon reservation) and a $10 materials fee (paid at the start of class).
This is truly a broom making deep dive: essentially 3 broom making classes all wrapped into 1 rich weekend of crafting!
We’ll create functional, beautiful brooms from locally harvested sapling handles and stalks of broom corn and string. Our work will start by carefully sorting and preparing the broom corn for each broom. While the broom corn soaks, we will each select handles from my collection of carved, dried saplings.
We will bind both round-stitched cobweb brooms and flat-stitched hearth brooms, along with several types of smaller hand brooms. You’ll learn techniques for binding 2-3 layers of broom corn to the handles, weave the stalks around the handle, and stitch the broom flat to give the broom structure. Each broom maker will trim their broom flat and add a hole bored in the top of the handle and a thin leather hanging cord to conclude the project. Handles and all other materials will be provided. Hearth Brooms are a super useful one-handed broom to have around the house, cobweb brooms whisk away the winter webs, and hand brooms tend to small messes in any place you make them. Brooms look just as great hanging on display as they do sweeping up a pile of ash or cleaning up your latest crafting mess!
Each participant can expect to create 1 hearth broom, 1 cobweb broom, and several hand brooms during this 2 day class.
No prior experience is necessary to participate, though dexterity and strength in both hands is quite important for broom making. Class is appropriate for participants age 15+. Any participant under the age of 16 should be accompanied by an adult also participating in the class. My experience is that most participants find broom making to be significatnly more physical than they expected. If you have concerns about physical limitations due to injuries, etc., please reach out with questions prior to registration.
