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The larger of our two sizes of Catalonian Hunter axe, with hammer to the reverse. Traditionally used for breaking down carcasses, as well as cutting through light brush. Hand produced at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small ma..
£64.00
Ex Tax:£53.33
A small hand axe for cutting through light brush and shrubbery. Hand produced at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small manufacturers. Founded in 1917 by brothers Lluís and Carles Pallarès Canal, they are now a third generation ..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
A hand-forged gardener’s knife from the Zakuri blacksmith’s cooperative of Tosa, Japan. Left still baring witness to the blows of its forging the blade is triple layered, with a core and edge of the renowned ‘White Paper’ steel, an extremely pure and hard carbon steel with an exceptionally fine mart..
£60.00
Ex Tax:£50.00
A small garden knife, with a comfortable beech wood handle with steel rivets. Hand forged in the Catalonian workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife maker in a town once dotted with manufacturers. The hooked carbon-steel blade can be used for harvesting, pruning and grafting ..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
A pair of fully nickel-plated carbon steel embroidery scissors with beautiful bows decorated with vine leaves and bunches of grapes, ornately wrapping themselves around the handles. Grape scissors are used to delicately trim grapes from the bunch and are a refined accompaniment to a choice pla..
£54.00
Ex Tax:£45.00
General purpose gardening scissors from Okatsune, Japan, used for pine pruning and thinning evergreens. Remarkably strong, with 57mm blades of carbon steel, yet delicate and accurate. Cut diagonally across branches (not straight across). Try holding with index finger outside the handle for better co..
£59.00
Ex Tax:£49.17
A pair of simple garden scissors, great for cutting flowers, dead-heading and light pruning, as well as snipping twine whilst in the garden. Sharp, precise blades make for satisfying, clean cuts on softer green stems, whilst the blades are strong enough to cut through woodier stems up to around penc..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
A woven willow ‘Faru’ (old English for journey) basket, woven in Worcestershire by Sarah Loughlin using three varieties of willow: Old French, Flanders Red and Dicky Meadows. An asymmetrical rising edge topped with a thick stem of hazel allows for easy access to your foraging finds. The willow is so..
£65.00
Ex Tax:£54.17