Brooms can be made from a variety of materials, such as broomcorn sorghum, straw, and plastic. A full-sized broom can help keep a home clean and tidy, but what about the often overlooked hand broom?

I call it broomstraw. Others broomsedge. Whatever you call it, it doesn’t kill my memories of my grandmother’s homemade brooms. About a yardstick long, they stood in corners throughout the house. That ...

What started as an internship has now become a part-time small business for a local woman. Shannon Bardole, of Ames, first found her interest in homemade soap and broom making when she worked at ...

No one makes brooms by hand anymore. Well, almost no one. More than a century ago Jack Martin’s maternal ancestors, the Hockadays, began growing broomcorn alongside more conventional crops on the ...

Berea College’s broomcraft program carries on an American craft tradition that’s rarely practiced today Liz Logan - Contributing Writer The brooms that are made at Berea College, in the Appalachian ...

A while back, T ’s former editor Deborah Needleman posted a picture on Instagram of a woman in Jaipur, India, holding a broom. The broom is unusual: no handle, with bristles several feet long that ...

JOYCE, Wash. — At a tiny shop in the tiny town of Joyce, Teresa Bentley makes everyday magic - by making an everyday cleaning tool. Chances are, the broom hanging in your closet looks nothing like the ...