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A Kitchen Staple, Made By YouThe 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.
List of contents
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
A
lternative brush fibers
Dyeing broomcorn
Tools for the long haul
Closing
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
Foreword
- 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.
