Namaste India One Vietnamese Soft Fan (Straw) Broom, 40 Inch

Love this broom for a quick clean up

Highly effective in sweeping fine dust from floor

For the price the plastic handle was a disappointment. It works okay but not that happy with the product.

Grew up with these type of brooms in the house. These Straw brooms works exactly like the ones we used in my house growing up. Something to know about these brooms is they aren't heavy duty brooms for heavy work for use outside or for things like broken glass on floors. We always used it more as a dust broom or dust-bunny broom which it does better than any other broom I've used on our hard floors. Compared to the other types of brooms we have in the house that we've purchased at Home Depot/Lowes/Target that use artificial or hard straw is that dust bunnies tend to stick to the those and you have to uses your hands to pull the dust bunnies off. Not with these type of brooms This is not to say this broom completely replaces those heavier duty type brooms. We have those too for things like broken glass, heavier items to sweep up or for use on the patio and garage. Regarding the broom falling apart or losing straw. Even with the ones I had growing up, they would occasionally lose straw, more so when used roughly. When used as a "dust" or light work broom, it happens much less often and can last many years.

I have a similar version I purchased a couple years ago in an Asian store, loved the broom at the time as it seems to clean my tile floor - marble so great. Well with use it started falling apart. So I went back to the Asian store and searched and asked and searched and could not find a replacement after being told to look here and there, I gave up and bought this item on amazon.com. Broom arrived and I excitedly noticed how soft it was in comparison to the model I purchased locally, I then noticed that as I swept a small area and saw what seemed like a fair amount of dust, I'm like whoa this thing is really good, yeah right, what I later discovered was a dust falling off the broom material at a rapid and consistent rate looking like a greenish brown dust from the straw fronds, then as I used, it started falling apart before my eyes to the point that in a sweeping stroke motion, I was missing a middle swath of dust as the middle of the broom was gone. I was past disappointed and called Amazon and requested a return/refund and told Amazon no way am I taking a hit for return shipping. Amazon listened and took it back, thats why I shop here.