He recently, became the first craft broom maker to feature his work on Amazoncom. However, broom making is a relatively new passion for Burton, who came to Berea College for a liberal arts degree in ...

ARCOLA — A maker of craft brooms for about eight years, it was nothing for Debbie Lutz to decide to travel from her home in Pennsylvania to spend part of the weekend at a festival honoring brooms and ...

Growing up just outside of rural Berea, Kentucky, I was spoiled from a young age by the proliferation of beautifully crafted, functional housewares that graced store windows and lined neighbors’ ...

Cynthia Main runs Sunhouse Craft, a company that makes handmade brooms, Appalachian style. (Photo courtesy of Sunhouse Craft) Rural arts programs helped Eastern Kentucky maker Cynthia Main develop ...

BELMONT — In a day and age when technology rules, Everett Bailey embraces a simpler time. On most Wednesdays Bailey can be found in the Carpenters Shop at Canterbury Shaker Village demonstrating the ...

Broomcorn harvesting used to be a major part of the U.S. agriculture industry before being swept away in the 1990s, but one Kentucky craftsperson is looking to bring it back. Artisan broom-maker ...

Chances are you don’t think much about the aesthetic appeal of your broom handle. Eric McIntyre does, though — and not only that, the 29-year-old woodworker and broom maker thinks about comfort as ...

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 ...

Sue's late husband, Arthur Nash, worked as a broom maker from his teenage years A traditional besom maker who supplied Harry Potter stars with their brooms has said her craft is dying out. Sue Nash ...