Splitting stick with 'splitter' during besom broom making

SR RIB PH2/3/1

c.early 1940's

C. F. F. Snow, A. Appleton

1 photographic print: b&w

type: PRINT, dimensions: 15.3 x 15.2 cm

English

Besom brooms, Brooms and brushes, Broom and brush industry, Tools, Wood, Wood products, A. Appleton, Baughurst, besom broom making, Graphic Materials

<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>2. &lt;B&gt;Making bonds&lt;/B&gt;&lt;P&gt;Mr. Appleton makes the bonds he requires using a wooden splitter made by his grandfather. The splitter cleaves the willow stick he is holding into three separate lengths, each piece, when further split, this time using a knife and his broom horse, providing him with three or four bonds. Two of these new bonds will then be wound tightly round the broom head to hold the twiggy bundle firmly together.&lt;P&gt;SR RIB PH2/3/1</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>

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RHC copy neg. NMC 35/19164