Friendswood Brooms

08/26/2025

I've been working on some wedding brooms. Just have to do a lot of sewing now.

05/02/2025

Another fine day at work on Biltmore Estate. Here is my typical setup for a day of broom making at the Antler Hill Barn on Biltmore Estate here in Asheville, North Carolina. If you make it to Biltmore this year, please stop by and visit with me.

08/23/2024

One of our brooms is featured in the current issue of American Craft magazine. Diana always makes our brooms look good in her photos.

04/29/2024

Wedding season is coming soon! Here are some recent wedding brooms we've been working on.

09/11/2023

07/16/2023

We were featured in the new issue of Carolina Home and Garden. Thanks to Diana Gates Photography for the awesome photos.

03/28/2023

Another successful Wicked Witch of the West broom! This custom piece debuted in Lyndonville Central School's production of the "Wizard of Oz".

09/30/2022

Latest batch of Friendswood Flyers ready for the fullmoon and Halloween! These range from $150 - $300.

05/26/2022

Corbin, third generation broommaker, working on his original design. He welded two camshafts together for this one.

10/02/2021

All the best dressed Wizards and Witches are sporting Friendswood Brooms this Quidditch season.

06/19/2021

New moose antler design. It took a few months for it to decide what it wanted to look like. Very pleased with the result, even if it took forever...

09/14/2020

Diana has been working around the clock to get our Website updated. There are lots more pictures of Ralph and his brooms from the past 5 decades. If you want to see some funky brooms from the 70's and learn more about Ralph's story, check out the new and improved website.

http://friendswoodbrooms.com/our-story/

Our father, Ralph Gates, received a phone call in 1973 that would forever change our family. Ralph had been working as a software-systems engineer at the Kennedy Space Center on the east coast of Florida. His job with Grumman, contracting with NASA, helped put man on the moon and it was an exciting....