TAOTAT’s Mystic Tea & Brooms

TAOTAT’s Mystic Tea & Brooms Amy is a Certified THAC Tea Sommelier Professional & Professional Broomsquire (full time broom maker). Blender of small batch, mostly organic Teas, Tisanes.

Hand crafted Brooms & Whisks. She offers Tea related & Broom Making Workshops, Private Lessons. For 30+ years Amy Taylor has been a Tea Enthusiast and a professional Tea Leaf and Card Reader. She is the sole owner of The Art of Tea and Tasseomancy (TAoTaT c.1988), a business with a focus on all things tea, tea Sommelier services, tea leaf reading & Lenormand tea cards. Amy is a Certified THAC Tea

Sommelier Professional and Ming Tea Brew Master, and a Broomsquire (broom maker). She is also in the process writing a few books, one of which is about the mystical side of Tea. She opened TAoTaT's Mystic Tearoom shop in 2016. Amy’s passion for all things tea and herb related is one of the reasons why she decided to to sell a small curated selection of teas and tisanes. Many of the blends she has for you are not only organic but as much as possible single origin, from farm smallholders, and sustainability harvested. Amy creates almost every blend that she carries, and if she didn’t, she made sure to test and taste them prior to passing them onto you. I late 2020 Amy rekindled her love and passion for creating with natural material by making brooms again. She had 20lbs of broom corn sitting in her basement for over 10 years that she rediscovered, and decided to begin working with again. She took a couple online courses to refresh her muscle memory, and now offers brooms for sale through her shop. She also does custom requests, send her an email to find out how you can get onto her creating schedule. Amy has over the last 25+ years collected an extensive collection of Tasseomancy related advertising materials, cups and saucers, books, postcards, novelties etc. She has nearly the entire Tasseomancy Museum on display in her Mystic Tearoom in Hamilton, Ontario. Amy also has been featured, interviewed and quoted in many articles, blog posts, other media and social outlets as an authority on Tasseomancy. However, she feels that she is always learning more. She has written Tasseomancy, tea and garden related articles for some online blogs/ezines. As well, she is a contributing writer for the Tea and Herb Association of Canada’s Herbal Modules for TAC Certified Tea Sommelier courses. Amy has been teaching Tasseomancy for 22 years and about Tea for 13+ years. She’s a public program teacher at Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario, Canada (2008-21). She has been a speaker at the RBG Tea Festival and Toronto Tea Festival (2017-21), and in 2019 at the London Tea and Kombucha Festival.

08/31/2026

Happy 92nd Birthday to the late Raymond Buckland!

I have a personal connection to Raymond through one of my Craft lineages and am honoured to have one of my brooms in the Bucklland Museum. You can see it in this video, it’s the antler tip broom on the altar at the end of the video.

If you have never been, you should go as the museum is chock a block full of artifacts and history related to witchcraft in North America.

Today, I raise my cuppa tea to honour Raymond and my friends at the museum!

Come see me in the broom makers shop in the barn! Heritage Days are always fun days out!
08/26/2026

Come see me in the broom makers shop in the barn! Heritage Days are always fun days out!

Be Mindful*** Please note due to material supply issues, this tea will be available by September 11thInspired by a late ...
08/21/2026

Be Mindful

*** Please note due to material supply issues, this tea will be available by September 11th

Inspired by a late night cuppa tea enjoyed with friends Agnes Niewiadomski and Coyote Tales after a beautiful day out, celebrating the milestone anniversary of Agnes’ business turning 10 years old. It was a day filled with lots of joy, dance & creativity. After the festivities, late in the evening we three shared a pot of tea. The tea we drank that evening was simple, nettle and chamomile, but I immediately knew I needed to expand beyond those two beautiful botanicals.

Be Mindful is a blend that is a reminder that taking a moment to rest, and disconnect from devices and be in the moment, is so restorative for our body, mind and soul. This blend is made with herbs to calm, relax and restore ones energy after a busy time. This tea can be enjoyed anytime you need a break, and take a moment to be mindful.

Organic Ingredients: chamomile, nettle, lemon balm, rose petals, calendula and blue cornflower.

Available in my online store as of September 11.

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I will be back in the Broom Makers Shop doing live broom making demonstrations on a traditional foot-break, and the old ...
08/16/2026

I will be back in the Broom Makers Shop doing live broom making demonstrations on a traditional foot-break, and the old Kickwinder.
The historic town of Glen Elgin is super cool, come see the blacksmith, the weavers, the Ball Family home, the working grist mill, the old Glen Elgin Church, not to mention the gorgeous trails and water falls! You totally should come!

08/14/2026

UPDATE: the class will be loaded tomorrow, Monday August 17th. Sorry for the extra delay, we need one more day. Thank you for your patience.

The next Online On Demand Class, the Wings Class, will be launched on Sunday August 16th, instead of today.
Thanks for understanding.

08/07/2026

UPDATE! We are dry! The plan now is to get the filming done, and edited and up online by FRIDAY!! Lesson two will be a blast, learn ho to craft a Turkey Wing, and a Hens Wing hand broom! More to come!

Whelp . . . And once again, my studio has been flooded by freak rain. If anyone still believes that we’re not in a climate crisis . . . They can GTFO🤬.
Thankfully this smaller flood is much easier to deal with than what others in my region have had, I am counting my blessings that it’s not worse.

We will try to film tomorrow, for the next class in the On Demand broom classes, which will be Turkey and Hens Wings, provided we’re able to dry out. So, class #2 in the On Demand Broomcraft series will hopefully be released on Sunday August 9th 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻. Stay tuned!

Have a great day folks 🙏🏻

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Hamilton, ON

Opening Hours

Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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+19058652711

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