The Handmade Broom
Autor Cynthia Mainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 ian 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781951217549
ISBN-10: 1951217543
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 203 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Blue Hills Press
ISBN-10: 1951217543
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 203 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Blue Hills Press
Notă biografică
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.
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.
Cuprins
Introduction:
LEARNING THE BASICS
GOING DEEPER IN THE CRAFT
Closing
LEARNING 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
- Alternative brush fibers
- Dyeing broomcorn
- Tools for the long haul.
Closing