We drove up to Balfour about 20 minutes away and took the ferry, which is actually part of the highway system, across to Crawford Bay. Here we toured the workshops of the black smith, glass blowers, pottery, woodworkers, weavers and handcrafted corn brooms. The brooms are made from the tassels of the Broomcorn plant, also know as sorghum. The shop is located in a historic old log barn and we watched the woman as she tightly wound the twine around the tassels on an antique machine, wove and bound the stems and chopped it top and bottom to finish the product. There are hundreds of brooms hanging from the rafters and walls and they sold 250 of their brooms which were used in the last Harry Potter movie.
The weaving store was made of straw bale construction and most interesting. The porthole shows the straw in construction and obviously, the walls were about 2 feet thick as you could see by the depth of the windows.
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