Plaited Handle Whisk Brooms

Name: Plaited Handle Whisk Brooms
Start: 2025-04-05T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-05T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 1000 E 30th St, Chattanooga, TN, United States, Tennessee 37407

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1000 E 30th St, Chattanooga, TN, United States, Tennessee 37407 | Chattanooga, TN

Whisk brooms are useful, attractive, and make great environmentally friendly tools for tending to a space. Some people like to keep one in their car, foyer, mudroom, or near their fireplace to clean up ashes. They are great for quickly cleaning tables and countertop surfaces or can be used to clean dust, dirt, and cobwebs from hard-to-reach spaces where a big broom can’t easily get, such as behind kitchen appliances or toilets. They make excellent housewarming or wedding gifts and can also be used in a ritual or sacred space for energetic clearing purposes. If you’ve never had a whisk, you are missing out on the joy and beauty of using these handcrafted tools!
Participants will design and make a plaited handle hawk tail whisk broom made with traditional broomcorn stalks, broomcorn straw, recycled cotton cord, and natural dried floral materials.
DETAILS:
- This class is open to total beginners as well as professional crafters.
- TWO Scholarship spots are available to people of the global majority (PGM) and folks who have been displaced by recent disaster. You can reach out to Frea at [email protected] for more information and to secure your scholarship spot.
- Age limit: 15+ or with special permission of instructor.
- This class will exercise upper body muscles and will require use of both feet and hands while seated.
- There is a minimum of three participants in order to hold this event and a maximum of ten participants.
- An additional fee for materials provided by your instructor for this workshop is estimated at $20.00. This fee is payable to the instructor at the time of the workshop. Payment by cash, check, or venmo is required for materials fees.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Frea Forager (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/her) is the founder and craftswoman behind Wild Earth Crafts, an initiative that helps creative folks, educators, homesteaders, and lovers-of-the-outdoors learn to use materials from their own neighborhoods and backyards to create beautiful and useful home goods.
Through Wild Earth Crafts, Frea has been enthusiastically helping connect folks more deeply with the natural world so that we can weave the wild back into our lives and be in deeper connection with the land we live upon. She is a potter, hide tanner, basket maker, broomsquire, and handcrafts instructor. Foraging is one of her greatest joys in life! She lives for making beautiful, useful items with various seeds, nuts, grasses, vines, and sticks and for sharing these joys with others.
Frea began Wild Earth Crafts in 2014 when she decided to start a retail business based on her nature-inspired crafts and passions. Since then she has drifted away from retail to focus more on teaching classes and facilitating nature-connecting experiences. She has been an instructor at various earthskills gatherings in the southeast since 2017.