Sunhouse Craft
Sunhouse Craft is Cynthia Main's broom-making studio in Berea, Kentucky, where every broom is made by hand on human-powered antique equipment. She has made brooms since 2013 and wrote The Handmade Broom (Blue Hills Press, 2024).
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Why Southern Crafted
Makers museums collect.
Work by some of our makers is held in places like the Smithsonian.
Made to last generations
Small-batch and handmade, for everyday use and then for handing down.
Made in the South
100% of the artisans we carry work here in the South.
Free shipping over $300
Easy exchanges, too. Fragile pieces like glass and art ship at cost.
A broom worth hanging up
Cynthia Main makes brooms in Berea, Kentucky, the kind you'd rather hang on the wall than shut away in a closet. At Sunhouse Craft each one is made by hand on antique, human-powered equipment, with the broomcorn bound to a handle of local hardwood. She has been at it since 2013, and in 2024 she wrote the book on it: The Handmade Broom.
Six acres of broomcorn
Broomcorn is what brooms were always made from: a grain grown for its long, stiff tassels rather than its seed. Cynthia has set out to make it a local crop again. Lazy Eight Stock Farm now grows organic broomcorn for her on a six-acre patch, which she believes makes them the largest organic broomcorn growers in the country. The brooms are still made by hand, on antique equipment that runs on nothing but the maker.
Keep it where you'll see it
Hang one by the back door, where it's the first thing you reach for, and keep the little turkey wing by the stove for the crumbs that collect along the counter. These are everyday tools, made well enough that you'll want them out.
Cynthia Main
Cynthia Main started out as a woodworker and carpenter, carving spoons and cutting boards, and it was farming that brought her to brooms. While growing broomcorn in Missouri she began making brooms from it, and she has been at it since 2013. One of her designs, the Haystack, still honors those years of harvest and shared work.
Berea gave the work a home, and a lineage. Berea College has made brooms by hand since 1920, and it was a Berea broom maker, Justin Burton, who encouraged Cynthia to apply to the city’s artisan program. In 2024 she wrote The Handmade Broom, a popular guide for aspiring broom makers. Doug Stubbs runs the wood shop, turning lumber from a local sawmill into Sunhouse’s boards and wooden wares.
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