HAND BROOM MAKING WORKSHOP
Join us for a lovely workshop by Bryan Cassidy at the tasting room.
*TICKET LINK COMING SOON*
Details: We will make hand brooms (non wood handle brooms) both 'turkey wing' and 'round' broom designs. Each broom maker will also make a scrub brush for dishes.
Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.
Cost: $72pp. *Each ticket includes one 12oz hard cider or NA Cider Seltzer
All materials are included: Broom Corn, Waxed Thread wound around piece of wood, Scissors, Pliers, Loppers.
Limited to 15 participants.
Structure of the class:
Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)
Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)
Bryan demonstrates the round brush broom and pan scrubber
Participants make round brush broom
Bryan demonstrates the 'turkey wing' broom
Participants make the turkey wing broom
Showcase our makings and closing
Bryan Cassidy is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.