Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
This is a hand broom rather than a bench brush: longer body, sweeping head. Bound in coloured nylon cord, with a cotton strap or an upgrade to red deer oak bark tanned leather.
The bristles are broomcorn, not corn at all but a type of sorghum grown for its tall ornamental tassel. The fibre is very stiff. Right for sweeping a doorstep, a stone floor, a workshop bench, the dust pile a sander leaves behind.
Made to hang. Set it on a hook by the back door or against the workshop wall. A broom that earns its keep above the skirting board.
When he isn't binding brooms, Simon weaves oak swill baskets in the same workshop. He is the only person left in Scotland still making them.
This is a hand broom rather than a bench brush: longer body, sweeping head. Bound in coloured nylon cord, with a cotton strap or an upgrade to red deer oak bark tanned leather.
The bristles are broomcorn, not corn at all but a type of sorghum grown for its tall ornamental tassel. The fibre is very stiff. Right for sweeping a doorstep, a stone floor, a workshop bench, the dust pile a sander leaves behind.
Made to hang. Set it on a hook by the back door or against the workshop wall. A broom that earns its keep above the skirting board.
When he isn't binding brooms, Simon weaves oak swill baskets in the same workshop. He is the only person left in Scotland still making them.
Simon Cooper is the only oak swill basket maker left in Scotland. He works from a single room in Crieff, splitting coppiced oak with a cleaver, soaking the strips, weaving them while still wet, the same way the form has been built for four hundred years.
