Kucho Incense Broom Lavender smudge sticks Middle Eastern and South Asian

Middle Eastern and South Asian resin-incense traditions

The bundle form is older than industrial essential oil extraction

roughly half endemic to Anatolia

and piezoelectric

Each tin is a small fragment of an entire endemic ecosystem

Kucho Incense Broom Lavender smudge sticks Middle Eastern and South AsianThe kuchu a small hand bound natural fibre broom from Nepal, sized for the hand and used for spreading and directing incense smoke through a space. Made by Kathmandu Valley craftspeople in the same broom grass and binding tradition as the larger household brooms, scaled down and finer for the smoke tool format. Held at the bound shaft, brush end forward, the kuchu fans or sweeps incense smoke across rooms, into corners, or toward specific areas