Fabric of Life: Broom Making with Eva Gaultney

In this video Eva Gaultney will be making a hand broom. The broom is made of broomcorn and broomcorn stalks. The stalks are soaked in warm water for 30 minutes and then sliced down the middle in preparation for making the broom. The rest of the process is featured in the video.
Eva has been making brooms since 2014 when it was her labor position at Berea College. She enjoyed the process of working with her hands and creating something that would be used and enjoyed by other people. She loves being a part of keeping this traditional craft alive.
Fabric of Life provided Eva with an opportunity to attend the 2019 Vav Immersion and she is currently a Fabric of Life Program Provider.
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Fabric of Life's annual Barnfest event helps support our mission of preserving traditional skills. While we wish we could be hosting this event in person, we hope this virtual format will allow more people to be involved in helping to sustain the work of Fabric of Life through our online fundraiser auction (www.ebay.com/u....
Several of Eva's handmade brooms are featured in our fundraiser auction!
Bidding on our online auction items closes on Tuesday, October 27th at 10AM EST!!
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Fabric of Life is a 501(c)3 not for profit educational organization dedicated to the preservation and passing on of knowledge and skills that enrich our daily lives. We strive to see traditional skills flourish in our modern world and make these educational opportunities available to future generations. Working together creating practical things of beauty not only improves quality of life, but also strengthens communities.
Learn more about Fabric of Life at: fabric-of-life...

[@tirzhaprinsloo2774]

This is a lovely piece of handcraft work this can be teach in schools

[@h.f.7948]

Fantastic Eva👍👏👏👏❤❤❤🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

[@toddcaine6558]

Excellent work. Thanks for sharing.

[@sanghamitrasaha2458]

O.. It's a piece of art .. Excellent 👌

[@Gtr4Peace]

Beautiful work!

[@ابوالفاروق-ف9ج]

Hello friends, I am Omar from Syria. I have a lot of experience in making brooms from straw, and I am ready to travel so that I can teach anyone who wants how to make this broom in an artisanal way.

[@sayarshafi5048]

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[@TJ-ot2je]

Thank you for sharing this craft/skill. Beautiful work!!

[@robertsawchuk9365]

good work and good work keeping the art alive

[@syaifulanam8977]

Thanksgiving

[@louisedost8476]

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏿👍🏿

[@vivariumfontes]

👏👏👏👏 lovely

[@Here_comes_Indy]

I loved this but I was hoping that the video would teach me how to do this. But still a beautiful piece. I just really want to learn how to do this. Maybe you could do a step by step. I’m not sure what tool your using to do that loop and pull thing either.

[@0Eliza0]

Wow!

[@poppysarcade]

Beautiful!

[@khalidasmar1]

Do you know ? I respect you .

[@divineinterventiontvllc]

This is Beautiful 😍

[@iammote6076]

Wow!!! Amazing in your country have tiger grass. I come from Thailand. Nice to see you. 😉😯😎

[@FabricofLife]

Thank you for your comment! We use broom corn for these brooms.

[@iammote6076]

@@FabricofLife Wow amazing. Your brooms made from corn. 😊

[@FabricofLife]

@@iammote6076 From the stalks of the corn, actually.

[@JuliEbert-w2w]

Is there somewhere I can buy just the ends to make the handles? The broom corn I bought is thin.

[@halvavich9282]

великолепно ++++

[@daeralda]

Great video! I started making small brooms this past winter and I have blunted several of my kitchen knives and shears. I cannot seem to find any place that sells broom knives. Can you point me towards a place that offers them?

[@Diamonsarr]

All knives and scissors get blunt when you use them. That is why you take them to a professional knife sharpener for a touch up.

[@wingspacecoworking2022]

what kind of equipment are you using for the thread?

[@FabricofLife]

The string Eva is using is #18 La Espiga from this site: creativeyarnsource.com/shop/about-nylon/18-la-espiga2/ The equipment the string is on is a handmade kickwinder. The plans for it is on this site: xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/2nlazMTreNnwtSlh2g--/EI1_3ZTqf9avUVPEhVM-/name/How+To+Part+1.pdf

[@ThatBronxGuhrl]

What kind of knife is that?

[@istanmoykarmakar]

Beautiful hair

[@sarahwaghorn6906]

Hey, i wanted to make some paint brushes with my children, after watching your amazing video, you are very talented. Please may I ask where you would get the bristle material from, I'm having a real problem finding it. Many thanks

[@ladylilac93]

It's broomcorn. You can find it on Etsy. 🙂

[@JennySimon206]

What kind of thread is she usingm

[@ladylilac93]

@@JennySimon206 Probably a nylon twine, that's what is commonly used while makimg brooms.

[@JennySimon206]

@@ladylilac93 thanks so much

[@FabricofLife]

Thank you, Sarah Waghorn! Susan Chase is correct - this is broom corn used for handmade brooms.

[@ChandrashekarCN]

💖💖💖💖

[@seizuregirlllll]

Holy crap, it’s beautiful it the music almost gave me a seizure lmao😂

[@a-teamnation]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing Where can one find the pedal you thread with?

[@FabricofLife]

The equipment the string is on is a handmade kickwinder. The plans for it is on this site: xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/2nlazMTreNnwtSlh2g--/EI1_3ZTqf9avUVPEhVM-/name/How+To+Part+1.pdf

[@a-teamnation]

@@FabricofLife oh, thank you. It's says page cannot be found.

[@JK-jl1bf]

Beautiful!

[@sherececocco]

Wow!