Blast from the Past |
Have you ever cleaned your house with a hand-made broom made from coconut branch? Do you know what a ‘goose’ is, the type you iron with? How about a coal pot, ever use one of those to cook? These three items conjure up lots of memories for many.
The Flat Iron and the Charcoal Iron.
Coal Pot
Coconut Broom
Back in the day we didn’t have all these stores like there is today -- stores where you can go and find all types of different brooms. People made things themselves in the past. Early brooms might have been a branch from a tree; this is the case all over the world. But generally people got a bit more creative and found that some type of dry straw-like fibers bundled together did a better job. To make the Coconut Broom the pieces (of palm) were dried out and then they were woven around the base of a stick. The stick had been shaven and cleaned for use as the broom stick. The pieces (of palm) had to be tightly woven. Good Coconut Brooms lasted a long time.
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