About Me

Hello! I am Jamie Dun, a self taught broom maker based in Bristol UK. I was born in Montana, on the northern plains of the US and thanks to my Welsh husband, have made the UK my home for many years.

There are artists and musicians on both sides of my family and my professional creative background was in fashion and visual merchandising and design.

I started making my own brooms when I couldn't find high quality, traditional handmade Shaker brooms here in the UK. I started experimenting with smaller hand brooms in the tiny kitchen of our two bed flat and it has grown from there!

Broom making is a slow and solitary craft, but it’s also meditative and grounding. It makes me feel a connection with land and place.

I make brooms in the Appalachian, Shaker and European styles with imported broomcorn (sorghum). My natural hazel handles are coppiced sustainably in the Forest of Dean and surrounding areas. I offer a wide range of brooms from small vegetable brushes to full sized house and barn brooms to the double headed wedding broom.

Each broom is made by hand, one at a time, using no machinery or electricity - only traditional pre-industrial heritage methods in my barn studio on a lovely flower farm near Pensford on the southern edge of Bristol.

And thank you for joining me on this journey! Your interest and support means the world.

Jamie Dun

  

The Rocky Mountain Front, near my grandparents' home in Augusta, Montana