Crafting brooms has become a family affair with Thiessen’s oldest son, Ivan, and daughter-in-law Sherill from Spencer, Iowa, coming to work in the shop during the show. Son- in-law Loren Hicks has ...

I swept my porch yesterday with a natural corn broom. It’s a marvel and has barely changed since the first brooms were made. My modern broom still is a bundle of flexible “stems” held together around ...

Check out these easy to follow homemade broom making instructions. Get a list of all the handmade broom making supplies you will need! Sweeping with a handmade broom can connect you with the long ...

SELMER – Jack Martin made his first broom as a child in his grandfather’s old broom shop in Selmer. “He made me put it together and take it apart probably 11 times,” Martin said. “But I never knew how ...

Most of us own a broom. Some prefer the newer-style broom made from plastic, and some of us like a traditional broom made from broomcorn. Both types of brooms do a good job of sweeping, but there is ...

Making a beautiful homemade broom is easy, fun, and practical. Start building your skills by making this DIY hearth broom from broomcorn, then move up to larger brooms. You can make your own brooms!

SOUTHAMPTON – On most days, you can find Sam Moyer working away alone in a small room of an old concrete building once used to churn out cider on a former apple orchard. Moyer, 82, has been in the ...

KIRBY, W.Va. (AP) - In 2017, West Virginia Public Broadcasting featured one of West Virginia’s last remaining broom makers; Kanawha County resident Jim Shaffer. The story ended with a question: would ...