Broomcorn brooms haven’t been around for very long in the overall scheme of things… people have been using them since the mid-1700s and mostly in the US. Before broomcorn, a whisk – for sweeping instead of blending or stirring – was often constructed out of feathers… a an entire wing. Some of the first broomcorn brooms were patterned after those wings – bound down one side like a wingbone and fanned out on the other side like feathers – and named after them, too.
Meet the Turkey Wing Broom.