pots & pans scrub

Cynthia Main left her job running a salvage building materials wood shop at the ReBuilding Exchange in Chicago Illinois in 2013 to spend a year at Tillers International: a traditional rural skills school near Kalamazoo, Michigan. There, she was able to dive into more traditional woodworking and blacksmithing. Together with Doug Stubbs, she created Sunhouse Craft. Broom-making may have claimed her, she says, and allowing that to happen feels to her like a reclamation of sorts.

This is great for scrubbing cast iron pots, shovels, and for completing other hard scrubbing tasks. These little brushes get the job done. What's more is that they can also be used as a traditional cake tester! Back in the day, a piece of the top of the broom was used to test cakes to see if they were fully baked. Pull a piece off this scrub and insert it into your cake. If it comes out clean, then you can prepare to enjoy it. The scrub is made of broomcorn, and the band is a handwoven checkered organic linen band. The approximate scrub measurements are 16.5 cm long by 5 cm diameter.