Advanced Broom Making (Appalachian Heritage Week)

$870.00

Full

Broom Making

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Saturday)

Ages

Aug

Sun

Aug

Sat

04:00

09:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Sessions: 7

Session Hours: 7.00

Program Area: Broom Making

Instructor: Marlow Gates

Studio/Location: Rock Room

Student Materials: Please bring the following: - Old towel and/or work apron to protect your lap - Sturdy shoes - Any interesting potential broom handles - Basic Dremel kit with wood carving bits, if you have one. We have a few available to use.

School Fee & Materials: Some homegrown Folk School broomcorn if you got any. :-)

Instructor Materials: - Handles - Broomcorn - Copper tubing - epoxy and glues - twine and anything needed to make up to 5 brooms per student - Materials for additional brooms may be purchased. Approximately $20 - $25 per additional broom.

Equipment Needs: Rock Room - Tables, chairs and access to water - Basketry tool kits - Broom treadles with #24 poly cord - Gloves - Sandpaper (incl. 120 grit)

Skill Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Total Materials Fees: $125

Rock Room
1 FOLK SCHOOL RD
BRASSTOWN, NC 28902-8008

Description

Expand your skills and learn advanced techniques in this intermediate and advanced-level class. Develop techniques to get the most out of your brooms, including how to copper wrap handles and incorporate stones. Explore multi-head brooms on antlers and driftwood. Learn new sewing techniques to create artistic pieces, and discuss the past, present, and future of broom making as a profession. $

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Expand your skills and learn advanced techniques in this intermediate and advanced-level class. Develop techniques to get the most out of your brooms, including how to copper wrap handles and incorporate stones. Explore multi-head brooms on antlers and driftwood. Learn new sewing techniques to create artistic pieces, and discuss the past, present, and future of broom making as a profession. $

$125

Marlow Gates is a second-generation broommaker, carrying on his father's tradition of craftsmanship in broommaking. Rumor has it that he has been tying brooms since he was five years old (bonus points to any student who brings in the tabloid article from 1977 which verifies this rumor!). With a degree in design from North Carolina State University, Marlow now joins his wife, Diana, in creating brooms as functional art at their studio in Big Sandy Mush, NC.

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