Brand: Small items
An upright hand broom with stitched rice straw bristles and a turned beech wood handle, made in Germany by Burstenhaus Redecker. Great for sweeping kitchen floors, or small areas like porches, utility and rest rooms. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still ..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
A classic Spanish 'goat-legged' pocket knife with a pointed, leaf shaped blade of stainless steel. With matching stainless linings and spring set within shaped and polished antler scales individually decorated with unique pinwork. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving kni..
£79.00
Ex Tax:£65.83
Brand: Small items
A pure black and white hogs bristle broom head, resin set by hand in to an oiled hardwood stock. Perfect for sweeping hard indoor floors, the natural bristles generate less static than similar synthetic brooms, and tend in time to wear away, rather than ball at their tips, giving a longer effective ..
£28.50
Ex Tax:£23.75
Brand: Small items
A hand brush with a stained beechwood handle with leather hanging loop, and a thick head of stiff arenga fibres, which works perfectly with our dust shovel. Arenga is derived from the trunks of a South East Asian sugar palm, and is considered one of the hardest wearing of all natural brush fibr..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Small items
A hand-sewn, shaped, and assembled dark horsehair broom with a waxed and dyed beech stock, and detachable softwood handle. The moderately soft fine bristles are ideally suited to the sweeping of most internal floors, collecting dust and fine particles more effectively than stiffer synthetic or veget..
£48.50
Ex Tax:£40.42
Brand: Small items
A handsome hand brush with an oiled beechwood turned-wood handle with leather hanging loop, and a thick head of split horsehair fibres. Split horsehair is especially soft and therefore ideal to sweep fine dust. Horsehair is great for cleaning and sweeping. This natural fibre does not create a static..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
A handsome broom ideal for all types of hard indoor flooring, with an oiled beech wood stock, fitted with soft, dark horsehair bristles. A soft, yet firm brush, great for thorough sweeping. Measures 30 cm across the head. From a family owned and run brush making workshop in the town of Versmold, in ..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
A handsome broom ideal for all types of hard indoor flooring, with an oiled beech wood stock, fitted with split horsehair bristles. Split horsehair results in an especially soft and dense brush, ideal for moving fine dust, making this a very thorough sweeping tool. Measures 30 cm across the head. Fr..
£45.00
Ex Tax:£37.50
Brand: Small items
A pair of soft goat-hair and pear-wood brushes mounted upon stainless steel tongs allowing for the easy and scratch free dusting of broad leaved houseplants and vinyl records, as well as the gentle removal of aphids from leaves and stems. Made to an early twentieth century design in the Versmold wor..
£45.00
Ex Tax:£37.50
Brand: Small items
A outdoor broom made from the leaf stalks of coconut palm trees and bound with coconut rope. The water-resistant nature of coconut fibre makes this broom ideal for sweeping leaves on paving or grass. Handmade in the the workshops of a small German brushmakers. Supplied with a poplar wood handle, and..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
Children's red painted steel dustpan with a brush made from untreated beechwood and horsehair. The brush measures 22cm in length, the dustpan 19.5cm by 13.5cm. German made...
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
Dustpans of pressed and folded fairly heavy gauge sheet steel, with welded loop handles and a flexible rubber lip. Powder coated either red or black. From Iris Hantverk whose Swedish and Estonian workshops provide training and employment for visually impaired craftsmen in the making of artisan brush..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Small items
Dustpans of pressed and folded fairly heavy gauge sheet steel, with welded loop handles and a flexible rubber lip. Powder coated either red or black. From Iris Hantverk whose Swedish and Estonian workshops provide training and employment for visually impaired craftsmen in the making of artisan brush..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Small items
A simple pressed-steel, painted dust shovel with a stained beech handle and leather hanging loop. Ideal as a hearth scoop — although only with cold ashes — or for rugged outdoor use. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, founded by Friedrich Redecker in the 1930s, who specialise in th..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Small items
A black powder coated pressed steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since th..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A white powder coated pressed steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since th..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A pressed stainless steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since their foundi..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
A pure natural hog bristle bannister brush hand set in an oiled hardwood stock. Perfect for sweeping any hard floor area, and with a flared pale coloured bristle tip for reaching more awkward corners. From the company of R. Russell a family owned and run business who have been manufacturing brushes ..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Small items
A well finished oil treated beech stocked coconut fibre bristled hand-bound hand broom. Moderately soft for a vegetable fibre brush, and with a lovely wire stitch detail on the back. The bristles are water resistant making these suitable for indoor or outdoor use. From the workshops of Iris Hantverk..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
A simple hand stitched table brush of oiled maple, medium soft grey-brown horse hair and steel wire, with a distinctively flat profile. For use with a dustpan as a floor or bench broom. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were founded to provide traditional handcr..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
A simple hand stitched hand broom of beech, medium soft grey-brown horse hair, and steel wire. For use with a dustpan as a floor or bench broom. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were founded to provide traditional handcraft employment for the visually impaired,..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
A simple hand stitched hand broom of beech, medium soft grey-brown horse hair, and steel wire. For use with a dustpan as a floor or bench broom. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were founded to provide traditional handcraft employment for the visually impaired,..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
Perhaps one of the most ancient of brush designs, and one which has been slowly perfected through millennia of binding, weaving, and tying. Made only of rice straw (sorghum) wound with red twine on the body, and wire on the neck, secured to a small pin, creating a comfortably ergonomic handle made f..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
A dark bamboo handled, red- and black-twine bound brush of broom-corn/rice-straw, which is neither from rice nor corn, but a kind of sorghum grass traditionally planted on 5th June and harvested around the 20th August — after about 75 days growth — giving the optimum length between ligule (the point..
£125.00
Ex Tax:£104.17
Brand: Small items
A fairly soft hand brush made with an untreated beech handle, hand stitched with dark horse hair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. With a turned handle, and a hole for hanging. Just over 30cm overall length...
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Small items
A fairly soft hand brush made with a pine tar treated birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark horse hair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. As well as granting the brush its distinctive dark looks pin..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
A mid-length broom of a traditional type from a small craft workshop in Thailand. Sorghum is more commonly know as rice straw or even broom corn in the west and refers to a group of grasses used for brush-making throughout much of the world. Undoubtedly similar to the grass used in our Japanese and ..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Small items
An incredibly simple hand broom from Japan made from the finer tops of bamboo canes bound tightly together with wire. Similarly to our zatacon scrubbing whisks, and perhaps besom brooms to which these bear resemblance and could perhaps be considered cousins these are less brittle, harder wearing, an..
£7.00
Ex Tax:£5.83
Brand: Small items
With a stock shaped from boreal birch, the shorter fibres are of light coloured tampico (harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert). The longer dark arenga (a type of palm fibre traditionally used for the most hardwearing nautical rope) is slightly stiffer, to reach and clean betwe..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
A machine wound stainless steel wire and stiff horsehair double ended brush for cleaning between spokes, around gear mechanisms, and under mudguards, or amongst the many novel recesses found on alloy or trimmed steel wheels. From the workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Fri..
£9.50
Ex Tax:£7.92
Brand: Small items
A handled scrubbing brush, made from birch with bristles of union blend - a mix of hard palmyra palm and softer tampico fibres. The Swedish tradition of visually impaired craftsmen finding work in the manufacture of brushes continues today in the form of Iris Hantverk, which employs over 30 such ind..
£21.75
Ex Tax:£18.13
Brand: Small items
A traditional mop bucket fabricated from galvanised sheet steel, and equipped with a conical wringer and a loop handle for carrying. A straightforward tool, which avoids the more common recourse to plastic found these days. Use your favourite floor soap with some warm water, dunk your mop, lower int..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
A simple hardwood mop or broom handle, with a rounded top and tapered end, to fit our cotton mop heads or English brooms.Please note that this item will incur a long item shipping surcharge which will be added at the shipping stage of checkout...
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A high-quality traditional mop head made from twisted cotton fibre, with a galvanised steel socket top, for fitting a wooden handle to. Use with our galvanised mop bucket to polish your floors to a tidy shine, without the use of plastics. ..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A warm Amber coloured version of the classic Duralex Picardie tumbler. Designed in 1927 and produced using Saint-Gobain’s patented glass tempering method since 1945, during which each glass is heated to about 700°C and cooled rapidly in blasts of cold air. With a curving, tapering, nonagonal sh..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A gentle Rose coloured version of the classic Duralex Picardie tumbler. Designed in 1927 and produced using Saint-Gobain’s patented glass tempering method since 1945, during which each glass is heated to about 700°C and cooled rapidly in blasts of cold air. With a curving, tapering, nonagonal s..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A deep Sapphire coloured version of the classic Duralex Picardie tumbler. Designed in 1927 and produced using Saint-Gobain’s patented glass tempering method since 1945, during which each glass is heated to about 700°C and cooled rapidly in blasts of cold air. With a curving, tapering, nonagonal..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A set of four 25cl coloured versions of the classic Duralex Picardie tumbler, in Amber, Plum, Marine and Sapphire. Designed in 1927 and produced using Saint-Gobain’s patented glass tempering method since 1945, during which each glass is heated to about 700°C and cooled rapidly in blasts of cold..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Small items
A charmingly Heath Robinson-esque apple corer, cutter and peeler, cast in aluminium and stainless steel by Westmark of Germany, a company founded in 1956 that has been upholding Germany's strong reputation for quality manufacture ever since. Literally translating to "Apple Dream", the Apfeltrau..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
A natural latex rubber eraser from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic, with two levels of pumice content — more in the blue end, for more effective / abrasive erasing, less in the red, for a gentler effect. Approximately 42mm by 14mm by 7mm...
£0.50
Ex Tax:£0.42
Brand: Small items
Created in 1956, this sturdy and sharp vegetable peeler works well for those who prefer to hold their peelers at 90° to the object peeled. Constructed with the elegant simplicity of bent flattened chromed steel wire fitted with a distinctive sharks fin eye remover to its back, and a swivelling..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Small items
Fancy making chips or French fries at home? Then this is the tool for you! Made by the German company, Westmark, this easy-to-use and safe device is perfect for cutting vegetables, fruit, and any other finger foods. Comes with three inserts, 9x9, 10x10, and 12x12 mm widths depending on the desired t..
£49.50
Ex Tax:£41.25
Brand: Small items
A cast aluminium cheese slicer with a sharp stainless steel cutting wire. This hand held cheese slicer is perfect for soft and semi-hard cheeses such as Goudas, Cheddars, and Swiss style cheeses. Simply adjust the thickness by holding the handle at an angle, and glide through to create a perfect sli..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
This versatile cast aluminium tool is perfect for mashing potatoes, spätzle making, and even making fruit or vegetable purees. Simply press the arms together to expel food through the small holes. Depending on the density of the food, it will create uniform, shape-retaining strands. Three notches at..
£54.00
Ex Tax:£45.00
Brand: Small items
A stainless steel framed version of the original Rex peeler, invented in 1931 in the basement of Alfred Neweczerzal’s house, with a swivelling blade of blued carbon steel. Its design is simplicity itself — above all it works quickly and easily, without knack or any real effort. In 2004 it was given ..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A cast aluminium press with a food-safe enamel coating. A classic garlic crusher, still made by Westmark of Elspe, Germany — it doesn’t have any built-in cherry stoners, olive pitters, reversible easy clean separable handles, it just does what it does well — crush garlic, ginger, capers, olives, anc..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A cast aluminium press with a food-safe enamel coating, and a precision milled bowl and press piston for an easy to use garlic press. A classic garlic crusher, still made by Westmark of Elspe, Germany — it doesn’t have any built-in cherry stoners, olive pitters, reversible easy clean separable handl..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A lemon yellow lacquered cast aluminium citrus juicer sized for the effective juicing of lemons and limes. Used counter intuitively - the fruit should be halved latitudinally, placed with the flat side facing into into the holed cup, and crushed between the jaws, being turned inside out and thorough..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A small two-pronged pickle fork for serving with at the table, perhaps the ideal accoutrement to a ploughman's lunch; hand carved by artisans in the north of Africa from Italian olive wood. Typically growing in a twisted and irregular manner olive wood has a wonderfully unique grain when carved, and..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A wooden spatula for flipping and turning while cooking or for serving up freshly made grub; hand carved by artisans in the north of Africa from Italian olive wood. Typically growing in a twisted and irregular manner olive wood has a wonderfully unique grain when carved, and, due to the small sizes ..
£6.00
Ex Tax:£5.00