How to Plait a Broom
- 1). Ensure that there is an odd number of stalks when preparing to plait. If there is an even number, find the thickest stalk and either bend it in half or cut it off, so you are left with an odd number.
- 2). Wind the hemp string in and out of the stalks going all the way around the handle and spiral it up the broom handle at least eight circuits around.
- 3). Hold the string taught and the broomstalks tight while plaiting. This is a decorative piece of the broom but if things are not held tightly in place, it will come unraveled.
- 4). Make another band of string. The string should go around the handle eight times. After two wraps, insert a loose nylon loop with the loop piece sticking up out of the string binding and the tails sticking down below the string binding. Finish wrapping the string.
- 5). Cut the cord and put the end through the nylon loop and finish by pulling the nylon loop to hide the end of the tying cord. Cut the frayed piece of cord hanging below the binding string and singe it with a lighter to keep it from coming undone. Your plaiting is now done and held in place.
