What are Some Different Types of Brooms?
Bundles of sticks formed the earliest and most primitive types of brooms. Tree brush and branches were used in the United States for sweeping the ashes around cooking fires until Massachusetts farmer Levi Dickinson created the first corn broom in 1797. Dickinson’s corn brooms were manufactured in 1810 using a foot-treadle broom making machine. After production of the corn broom, the whisk broom and the push broom became other popular types of manufactured brooms and all three brooms are still used regularly, both commercially and residentially, today. Corn brooms are triangular in shape with rows of stitching to hold the corn fiber strands in place. The handle is traditionally made of wood, but some corn brooms may have plastic handles and some types may even have plastic bristles. Corn brooms with natural fiber strands are thought to be able to hold even the smallest particles of dirt, while most plastic varieties of corn broom have been treated with chemicals that help them pick up d
