Besom

I have been puzzling about mass producing besoms for our class this Thursday. I thought I was going to have to go out and forage for grasses and sticks, but Dollar Tree to the rescue! I found 5 ft. long bamboo poles and bunches of "broom grass". So far, I have only enough for 10 brooms, but they went together quickly.

 This is what the finished besom looks like.

 OK, so if Duct Tape  EXISTED in the medieval ages, witches would have TOTALLY used it. I laid the broom grass along the duct tape so that it was able to stick to it, then I wrapped it around the bamboo. Then I took another strip of tape and wrapped it again to help seal off that top edge.