Binding video of hand-tied broom

Handmade broom is a traditional skill of rural people. In the past, machines sold in rural markets were not equipped with brooms. Every household in the countryside should prepare some raw materials to tie some brooms for home use.

There are two kinds of raw materials for broom handle: millet ear and glutinous rice ear. After drying and binding, the broom can be tied in the off-season.

Before tying the broom, spray the millet ears and millet ears with water for later use.

Prepare tools for tying brooms, scissors and thin wire. Tie a thick rope around your waist and find a thin rope one meter right, which is called "borrowing rope" by the people. One end is tied to the rope around the waist, and the other end is tied with a wooden stick about a foot. Sit down, hold the stick with your feet, and your legs are just open.

First, the ears of glutinous rice are tied into small bundles. The method is to make the head of glutinous rice paste neat, a handful of 3 to 4 cm, or you can choose more or less according to your own needs. Tie people to sit down, wrap the whole sorghum ear in a circle with the borrowed rope, roll the wooden stick with the pedal tightly for a circle, and tie the rope twice conveniently.

Then, tie these five small handles together in the same way, and it becomes a broom. It can also be tied into an inclined plane or a flat plane according to the usage habit.

The way to tie a broom to a broom. But it's simpler. There's no need to tie a small one. Instead, tie a small one first, then put the other small ones directly in the middle of the first small one, and then tie them. Also, five small ones are tied into a broom. Finally, put the tied brooms together and flatten them with stones.