There has always been a need for whisk brooms for small sweeping jobs around a home, shop, or farm. In fact, most of those places needed more that one. They were handy for sweeping up small bits of unwanted matter such as bread crumbs, sawdust, dust, dirt, etc.
These useful little brooms were made from whatever materials were available locally. In the South they were often made of sedge (a local weed), jute, corn shucks, dried leafy materials, or a combination of these items. They were bound together by animal hair. This hair was usually obtained from the mane or tail of horses, mules, cows, or oxen. A few people made string and/or rope from the string obtained from the yucca plant, also called Spanish bayonet.
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