The Handmade Broom

Préface

•  Author outreach online and via email blast to former customers and students around the world and from her retail shop, Sunhouse Craft in Berea, Kentucky. 

• Author social media campaign including Book Tok, Reels and regular postings to 13K followers on Instagram. 

• Outreach to print media including Fine Woodworking Magazine (150,000 circulation, Make Magazine (225,000 circ), Woodcraft Magazine (125,000 circ), Woodworker’s Journal (90,000 circ.) and others. 

• Seeking podcast appearances on Fine Woodworking, Modern Woodworker’s Association, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, and others. 

• Website promotion and book giveaways on The Wood Whisperer, Fine Woodworking.com, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Canadian Woodworker.com, Woodworker’s Journal, and others. 

• Outreach to blogs and websites promoting woodworking, including Stumpy Nubs, Matt’s Basement Workshop, Canadian Woodworking, Fine Woodworking Online, The Wood Whisperer, Close Grain, and Modern Woodworker’s Association. 

• Outreach to Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal. 

Auteur

Cynthia Main is the founder of Sunhouse Craft, an artisan craft house in Berea Kentucky with a focus on brooms. She is an artist/maker whose work focuses on relating to land as part of an integral view of a more sustainable society. 

Cynthia’s strong background in woodworking and traditional craft surfaces in most of her projects, work that often uses traditional techniques for work that is collaborative, community building and strengthens connection to a place.  Cynthia learned traditional broom making at Tillers International in 2013 and has practiced the art ever since. 

She weaves thousands of brooms a year at her studio located in Berea, Kentucky. This is her first book.

Texte du rabat

A Kitchen Staple, Made By You

The humble broom lives in every home but is the workhorse of the house. There’s no reason why it shouldn't be beautiful as well. Join Cynthia Main, founder of Sunhouse Craft, as she walks you through how to make incredible, but deceptively simple, brooms, sweeps, and hand brushes. Easy enough to do at the kitchen table, and quick enough to make as gifts, you will learn the tools, techniques and materials necessary to supply your kitchen.

With beautiful step-by-step photography, and clear, insightful instructions, you’ll have everything you need to pick up a handful of broom corn and make these incredible objects for you and yours.

Contenu

IntroductionLEARNING THE BASICS 

Overview of Appalachian Style 

Tools, Supplies, and what you’ll need 

Handbrooms: 

Turkey Wings 

Hawks Tail 

Whisks and Pot Scrubbers 

Rooster tail 

Floor brooms: 

Cobwebbers 

Traditional Appalachian 2 ways 

Hearth sweeps 

GOING DEEPER IN THE CRAFT 

Exploring fibers 

Using natural alternatives for binding
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lternative brush fibers 

Dyeing broomcorn
Tools for the long haul

Closing