This is a “Short-handled broom” made of broom corn.
Broomcorn is an annual herb of the genus sorghum, a member of the grass family.
The seeds are sown in the spring and grow to a height of about 2 to 4 meters by summer. The ears are attached to the ends of the stalks and the ears are mainly used for brooms.
This broom is made from broomcorn grown in Nagano, Japan.
The brooms are made by skilled craftsmen who have made many brooms in the past.
This short-handled broom is also a standard form of broom that has been made for a long time.
Cotton threads are used in the process of shaping broomcorn into brooms, and these threads are colored by natural dyes.
The dyed yarn used for this broom is two colors.
“Indigo” and “Onion” layered dyeing (light blue) × “Indigo”(dark blue)
* Since these are natural dyes, there may be individual differences in color shading.
Due to the circumstances of the maker and the threads, the placement of the light blue and indigo colors on the broom you receive may differ from the picture. Please understand this in advance.Also, color shading and other coloring may vary. Either way, you will receive a broom finished with blue-colored threads.The shape of a Short-handled broom is characterized by the fact that the ears are tightly bundled near the handle and gradually spread out toward the tip of the ear.The handle is made of black bamboo from Wakayama Prefecture.The tip of the broom is angled. When sweeping, do not press hard against the floor, but sweep lightly with the tip to extend the life of the broom.It is dense and sweeps out even small and fine dust such as hair, dust and sesame seeds.As in this case, we can deliver a broom with a slightly bent tip.If you are concerned about this, wet the tip of the broom in water to shape it, wrap it in a cloth, and place a weight on it. Leave it to dry in the shade for about a day, and the broom tip will be shaped. Then dry it well in the shade.For easy one-handed sweeping, the ear tip is slanted.
The basic position is to hold the handle in one hand with the tip perpendicular to the floor. It does not take much force, and really only a quick sweep with the tip of the broom, as if lightly brushing it, will collect debris.
It sweeps smoothly not only on tatami mats (Japanese floor mats), but also on wooden floors and tiles, It also brushes away dust and debris that gets stuck in the joints of rug mats.
The light sound of the broom sweeping the floor with a swish, swish, swish is pleasant, and when you finish cleaning with it, the room will be clean and tidy, and you will feel a sense of exhilaration and freedom from moderate physical exertion.
The Short-handled broom also uses plenty of ears, giving you the peace of mind that you can complete your cleaning with just this one broom.
Alternatively, it would be good to use this broom for simple daily sweeping and use the vacuum cleaner once a week.
This broom is light and sturdy. It has a different quality from a vacuum cleaner.
Sweeping with a broom, listening to your favorite music, and moving your arms, legs, and body lightly without being drowned out by the loud noise of the vacuum cleaner can be a refreshing change of pace. The time you spend cleaning, which used to be a bit of a chore, can become a bit of a pleasure.
It is a beautifully finished broom that is soothing to look at.
Cleaning tools are often stored in cabinets or out of sight, but it would be a good idea to hang brooms and dustpans in places where they are frequently used, such as the living room.
We hope you will enjoy it as an interior decoration.
The photo is one of the care we would like to introduce. It is said that it is good to “gently stroke the tip of the broom with your hand” often on a daily basis. (*Please be careful not to use too much force, as pulling too hard will cause the ear to fall out.)
While removing dust and hair from the tip, stroke it before and after cleaning. This will keep the tips in good condition for longer use.
As the broom is used over time, it will become curly and the tips will wear off, but as it ages, it will become a more personal and user-friendly tool.
Wishing you a pleasant cleaning time.
__Cultivation of broomcorn and broom making__
The brooms featured here are made almost entirely by one person, from growing the broomcorn to making the broom.
In the spring, the seeds are sown in the field, and while watching the broom sprout and grow, the maker himself takes care of it by thinning it out, removing weeds, etc. The ears are harvested in the heat of midsummer, when the grass has grown tall enough to exceed the height of a man.
While checking the condition of the broom ears with his own eyes, he picks them by hand, one by one, taking a year’s worth of broom material at this time of year.
The brooms harvested here are dried in the sun for several days before being sorted to determine which part of the broom will be used. (The sorting process is said to be so important that it determines the quality of the broom).
Then the materials are prepared and finally the brooms are made.
Working in the fields under the hot sun. From the selection of materials to the finishing touches on the brooms, you can feel the care and sincerity with which each broom is treated.
This is a “Short-handled broom” made of broom corn.
Broomcorn is an annual herb of the genus sorghum, a member of the grass family.
The seeds are sown in the spring and grow to a height of about 2 to 4 meters by summer. The ears are attached to the ends of the stalks and the ears are mainly used for brooms.
This broom is made from broomcorn grown in Nagano, Japan.
The brooms are made by skilled craftsmen who have made many brooms in the past.
This short-handled broom is also a standard form of broom that has been made for a long time.
Cotton threads are used in the process of shaping broomcorn into brooms, and these threads are colored by natural dyes.
The dyed yarn used for this broom is two colors.
“Indigo” and “Onion” layered dyeing (light blue) × “Indigo”(dark blue)
* Since these are natural dyes, there may be individual differences in color shading.
Due to the circumstances of the maker and the threads, the placement of the light blue and indigo colors on the broom you receive may differ from the picture. Please understand this in advance.Also, color shading and other coloring may vary. Either way, you will receive a broom finished with blue-colored threads.The shape of a Short-handled broom is characterized by the fact that the ears are tightly bundled near the handle and gradually spread out toward the tip of the ear.The handle is made of black bamboo from Wakayama Prefecture.The tip of the broom is angled. When sweeping, do not press hard against the floor, but sweep lightly with the tip to extend the life of the broom.It is dense and sweeps out even small and fine dust such as hair, dust and sesame seeds.As in this case, we can deliver a broom with a slightly bent tip.If you are concerned about this, wet the tip of the broom in water to shape it, wrap it in a cloth, and place a weight on it. Leave it to dry in the shade for about a day, and the broom tip will be shaped. Then dry it well in the shade.For easy one-handed sweeping, the ear tip is slanted.
The basic position is to hold the handle in one hand with the tip perpendicular to the floor. It does not take much force, and really only a quick sweep with the tip of the broom, as if lightly brushing it, will collect debris.
It sweeps smoothly not only on tatami mats (Japanese floor mats), but also on wooden floors and tiles, It also brushes away dust and debris that gets stuck in the joints of rug mats.
The light sound of the broom sweeping the floor with a swish, swish, swish is pleasant, and when you finish cleaning with it, the room will be clean and tidy, and you will feel a sense of exhilaration and freedom from moderate physical exertion.
The Short-handled broom also uses plenty of ears, giving you the peace of mind that you can complete your cleaning with just this one broom.
Alternatively, it would be good to use this broom for simple daily sweeping and use the vacuum cleaner once a week.
This broom is light and sturdy. It has a different quality from a vacuum cleaner.
Sweeping with a broom, listening to your favorite music, and moving your arms, legs, and body lightly without being drowned out by the loud noise of the vacuum cleaner can be a refreshing change of pace. The time you spend cleaning, which used to be a bit of a chore, can become a bit of a pleasure.
It is a beautifully finished broom that is soothing to look at.
Cleaning tools are often stored in cabinets or out of sight, but it would be a good idea to hang brooms and dustpans in places where they are frequently used, such as the living room.
We hope you will enjoy it as an interior decoration.
The photo is one of the care we would like to introduce. It is said that it is good to “gently stroke the tip of the broom with your hand” often on a daily basis. (*Please be careful not to use too much force, as pulling too hard will cause the ear to fall out.)
While removing dust and hair from the tip, stroke it before and after cleaning. This will keep the tips in good condition for longer use.
As the broom is used over time, it will become curly and the tips will wear off, but as it ages, it will become a more personal and user-friendly tool.
Wishing you a pleasant cleaning time.
__Cultivation of broomcorn and broom making__
The brooms featured here are made almost entirely by one person, from growing the broomcorn to making the broom.
In the spring, the seeds are sown in the field, and while watching the broom sprout and grow, the maker himself takes care of it by thinning it out, removing weeds, etc. The ears are harvested in the heat of midsummer, when the grass has grown tall enough to exceed the height of a man.
While checking the condition of the broom ears with his own eyes, he picks them by hand, one by one, taking a year’s worth of broom material at this time of year.
The brooms harvested here are dried in the sun for several days before being sorted to determine which part of the broom will be used. (The sorting process is said to be so important that it determines the quality of the broom).
Then the materials are prepared and finally the brooms are made.
Working in the fields under the hot sun. From the selection of materials to the finishing touches on the brooms, you can feel the care and sincerity with which each broom is treated.
This is a “Short-handled broom” made of broom corn.
Broomcorn is an annual herb of the genus sorghum, a member of the grass family.
The seeds are sown in the spring and grow to a height of about 2 to 4 meters by summer. The ears are attached to the ends of the stalks and the ears are mainly used for brooms.
This broom is made from broomcorn grown in Nagano, Japan.
The brooms are made by skilled craftsmen who have made many brooms in the past.
This short-handled broom is also a standard form of broom that has been made for a long time.
Cotton threads are used in the process of shaping broomcorn into brooms, and these threads are colored by natural dyes.
The dyed yarn used for this broom is two colors.
“Indigo” and “Onion” layered dyeing (light blue) × “Indigo”(dark blue)
* Since these are natural dyes, there may be individual differences in color shading.
Due to the circumstances of the maker and the threads, the placement of the light blue and indigo colors on the broom you receive may differ from the picture. Please understand this in advance.Also, color shading and other coloring may vary. Either way, you will receive a broom finished with blue-colored threads.The shape of a Short-handled broom is characterized by the fact that the ears are tightly bundled near the handle and gradually spread out toward the tip of the ear.The handle is made of black bamboo from Wakayama Prefecture.The tip of the broom is angled. When sweeping, do not press hard against the floor, but sweep lightly with the tip to extend the life of the broom.It is dense and sweeps out even small and fine dust such as hair, dust and sesame seeds.As in this case, we can deliver a broom with a slightly bent tip.If you are concerned about this, wet the tip of the broom in water to shape it, wrap it in a cloth, and place a weight on it. Leave it to dry in the shade for about a day, and the broom tip will be shaped. Then dry it well in the shade.For easy one-handed sweeping, the ear tip is slanted.
The basic position is to hold the handle in one hand with the tip perpendicular to the floor. It does not take much force, and really only a quick sweep with the tip of the broom, as if lightly brushing it, will collect debris.
It sweeps smoothly not only on tatami mats (Japanese floor mats), but also on wooden floors and tiles, It also brushes away dust and debris that gets stuck in the joints of rug mats.
The light sound of the broom sweeping the floor with a swish, swish, swish is pleasant, and when you finish cleaning with it, the room will be clean and tidy, and you will feel a sense of exhilaration and freedom from moderate physical exertion.
The Short-handled broom also uses plenty of ears, giving you the peace of mind that you can complete your cleaning with just this one broom.
Alternatively, it would be good to use this broom for simple daily sweeping and use the vacuum cleaner once a week.
This broom is light and sturdy. It has a different quality from a vacuum cleaner.
Sweeping with a broom, listening to your favorite music, and moving your arms, legs, and body lightly without being drowned out by the loud noise of the vacuum cleaner can be a refreshing change of pace. The time you spend cleaning, which used to be a bit of a chore, can become a bit of a pleasure.
It is a beautifully finished broom that is soothing to look at.
Cleaning tools are often stored in cabinets or out of sight, but it would be a good idea to hang brooms and dustpans in places where they are frequently used, such as the living room.
We hope you will enjoy it as an interior decoration.
The photo is one of the care we would like to introduce. It is said that it is good to “gently stroke the tip of the broom with your hand” often on a daily basis. (*Please be careful not to use too much force, as pulling too hard will cause the ear to fall out.)
While removing dust and hair from the tip, stroke it before and after cleaning. This will keep the tips in good condition for longer use.
As the broom is used over time, it will become curly and the tips will wear off, but as it ages, it will become a more personal and user-friendly tool.
Wishing you a pleasant cleaning time.
__Cultivation of broomcorn and broom making__
The brooms featured here are made almost entirely by one person, from growing the broomcorn to making the broom.
In the spring, the seeds are sown in the field, and while watching the broom sprout and grow, the maker himself takes care of it by thinning it out, removing weeds, etc. The ears are harvested in the heat of midsummer, when the grass has grown tall enough to exceed the height of a man.
While checking the condition of the broom ears with his own eyes, he picks them by hand, one by one, taking a year’s worth of broom material at this time of year.
The brooms harvested here are dried in the sun for several days before being sorted to determine which part of the broom will be used. (The sorting process is said to be so important that it determines the quality of the broom).
Then the materials are prepared and finally the brooms are made.
Working in the fields under the hot sun. From the selection of materials to the finishing touches on the brooms, you can feel the care and sincerity with which each broom is treated.
