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Basic Broom Making Class

Learn all about hand brooms in Basic Hand Broom Making. Participants will learn skills to make turkey tail broom, hawk tail broom as well as pot scrubbers. Class will also cover broom anatomy, lore, history, a demo and hands-on broom making time. Supplies for two brooms are included in class fee. Physical abilities needed: grasping, holding, turning/rotating, maintaining tension between a stick under feet and a broom in hands. Broom making supplies and finished brooms will be available for purchase.

Textile artist Becka/ Bex Viets stumbled upon broom making and never looked back. The art of making brooms felt intuitive from the start. Unwilling to leave her textile practice behind she balances both trades with skill and precision at Hexagon Textile.

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Basic Broom Making Class @ The Whatcom Museum