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This Japanese dish cloth is made from traditional double-ply Kayaori — an open weave cotton fabric traditionally used in mosquito nets, which starts life starchy and crisp but soon softens into the perfect kitchen cloth, great for wiping up spills. Rinse well in cold water before usin..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A 100% kitchen towel, in a weighty, slubby washed natural linen with a woven in central red stripe. Grown and woven entirely in France, this kitchen towel is thick, robust and highly absorbent. Manufactured in Armentières, known as the 'City of Canvas' since the Middle Ages, where the manufacturer h..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
A 100% washed linen woven carry-all, with wide ribbed woven straps, great for days at the beach or when you need to carry more. Made entirely in France, from growing the flax to weaving and sewing, this bag is versatile and capacious, great for beach, market and general busy lives. Manufactured in A..
£42.00
Ex Tax:£35.00
Brand: Small items
A 100% washed linen woven shopping bag, with wide herringbone woven straps, in natural dyed linen. Grown and woven entirely in France, this shopping bag is strong, and capacious, but will stow away in small spaces, making it great to take with you when visiting the market. Manufactured in Armentière..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A 100% washed linen woven shopping bag, with wide herringbone woven straps, dyed in-the-piece. Grown and woven entirely in France, this shopping bag is strong, and capacious, but will stow away in small spaces, making it great to take with you when visiting the market. Manufactured in Armentières, k..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A double faced, weighty, 100% washed linen kitchen towel, with a cotton hanging loop. Woven by the master weavers at Lapuan Kankurit, in the Ostrobothnian district of western Finland. This fourth-generation weaving family has been creating its beautiful linen fabrics for over 45 years. Set up initia..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Small items
A thin, medium-soft bristeld bottle brush for cleaning spouts and narrow-necked bottles. Made in Germany from China bristle attached to twisted wire...
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Small items
A raw unstripped steam bent willow and golden tampico fibre dish brush handmade by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically barbed..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A medium stiff scrubbing whisk, or small hand brooms made of black arenga fibre harvested without felling from the trunks of sugar palms. Slightly softer than the other small whisk brushes these make excellent general washing up and vegetable scrubbers, as well as small stiff brooms for brushing dri..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
A sort of hybrid brush hand bound in Wakayama after the style of small shuro kojin (fireside) brooms but of tampico fibre, harvested from agaves found only in the Chihuahuan desert. Tampico is renowned for its water and chemical resistance as well as water holding ability, a quality granted by its m..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Small items
A small stoneware straight-sided bowl, measuring 10 x 6cm, finished internally in a natural clear glaze, with a traditional brown border to the exterior rim, and the rest of the exterior surface unglazed. Hand made in the northern Loire valley by Poterie Digoin, founded in 1875 in an area rich..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Small items
A raw unstripped willow and golden tampico fibre basting brush handmade by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically barbed surface..
£10.50
Ex Tax:£8.75
Brand: Small items
A mushroom picker of unstripped Finnish willow mounted with a lightly sharpened birch blade, hard enough to cut the delicate stems of most wild fungi, and with a tampico brush to clean soil and leaf compost from the freshly harvested mushrooms. Handmade by the craftspeople of a Finnish visually impa..
£21.50
Ex Tax:£17.92
Brand: Small items
A curvy tumbler of stainless steel made in New Delhi, India. Light weight, 6.5cm x 8cm in size, and ovoid shaped, these tumblers are designed with wine and spirits in mind, but could easily be used with any beverage. ..
£4.80
Ex Tax:£4.00
Brand: Small items
A traditional butter dish comprising a flat dish with a domed lid, hand thrown for us in Oxfordshire. Designed to hold half a standard block of butter. With an ash glazed stoneware / porcelain mix body, which is gas-fired to create a beautiful depth to the glaze. Wheel-thrown by Joseph Bul..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
Brand: Small items
A small upright hand broom with stitched rice straw bristles and an untreated turned beech wood handle, made in Germany by Burstenhaus Redecker, a family business who have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Great for sweeping dirt and detritus from worktops, windowsills, ..
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Small items
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from unstripped beech and hog-hair. Useful for cleaning dust and dirt from busy tabletops and shelves, as well as for the cleaning of computer screens and keyboards, the natural..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Small items
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from natural beech sections and hog-hair. Useful for a variety of uses – for cleaning dust and dirt from small spaces, or as a basting / pastry brush. The natural fibre prevents..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Small items
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from natural beech sections and hog-hair. Useful for a variety of uses – for cleaning dust and dirt from small spaces, or as a basting / pastry brush. The natural fibre prevents..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
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..
£86.00
Ex Tax:£71.67
Brand: Small items
A moderately stiff cobweb broom especially suited to external use. Made of near black arenga fibre harvested from Indonesian sugar palms, which is springy, durable, and especially water resistant - it was traditionally used for cordage on ocean going vessels - set in a beech stock in the form of a q..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A hand-sewn, shaped, and assembled dark horsehair hand brush with a waxed and dyed beech turned-wood handle and a leather hanging loop. The moderately soft fine bristles are ideally suited to the sweeping of most internal floors, collecting dust and fine particles more effectively than stiffer synth..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Small items
A beautiful low-kick broom ideal for all types of hard indoor flooring, with an oiled oak wood stock fitted with split horsehair bristles. Split horsehair is especially soft and therefore ideal for sweep fine dust, making this a very thorough sweeping tool. Measures 25 cm across the head. From a fam..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A hand stitched yard broom or scrubber of bassine, a course and hardwearing Indian palm fibre, held with stainless steel wire in an oiled stock (and handle) of slow growing boreal birch. With excellent water resistance the brush makes an ideal outdoor broom, for patios, driveways, and hard rough sur..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
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 surprisingly sturdy yet lightweight dustpan of pressed and folded cardboard, with metal rivets and a hanging ribbon. From Iris Hantverk whose Swedish and Estonian workshops provide training and employment for visually impaired craftsmen in the making of artisan brushes, cleaning aids and bathroom ..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
Extremely lightweight but eminently useable dustpans from Japan, made up of folded, glued, stapled, and riveted layers of Japanese paper stiffened with a bamboo reinforced rim and sealed and hardened with persimmon tannin. This natural varnish provides some water resistance as well as granting the d..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Small items
An extremely lightweight but eminently functional dustpan from Japan, made of folded, glued, stapled, and riveted layers of Japanese paper stiffened with a bamboo reinforced rim and sealed and hardened with a dark finish, providing some water resistance as well as granting the dustpan a smooth low s..
£37.00
Ex Tax:£30.83
Brand: Small items
A beautiful hand-knitted pot stand that can be used in the kitchen or dining table. A plywood ring forms the core of these pot stands, which is covered with strong Shuro fibre, hand wound and secured in place. Resistant to heat and very durable, these can also be hung on the wall between uses for th..
£39.00
Ex Tax:£32.50
Brand: Small items
A small but effective cleaning brush, designed for getting into mucky corners and getting them clean. Stiff shuro (Trachycarpus fortune or windmill palm) bark fibre, wound tightly with stainless steel. Made in Japan, where these kind of brushes have been part of everyday life since ancient times, th..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
A small simple and lightweight dustpan of galvanised steel fitted with a looped wire handle, all held together without use of welding, rivets, or fastenings. Pressed, trimmed, finished, and assembled largely by hand in a small metal workers shop in Osaka — a company who have specialised in the fabri..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
A soft natural sheepskin duster, ideal for cleaning hard surfaces, and the rapid dusting of less intricate items, or large pieces of furniture. From the company of R. Russell who have been manufacturing brushes and cleaning devices in Chesham, Buckinghamshire for 6 generations, since their founding ..
£8.75
Ex Tax:£7.29
Brand: Small items
An oil treated beech, and Madagascar palm fibre handmade hand broom. Fairly soft for a vegetable fibre brush, and with a lovely wire stitch detail on the back. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use. From the workshops of Iris Hantverk in Sweden, where visually impaired craftsmen traditionally manufactu..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
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 by flax twine and with a wooden peg driven into the handle to tighten and secure the fibres, the brush possesses a simpl..
£22.50
Ex Tax:£18.75
Brand: Small items
A smaller hand-bound broom of broom-corn, a kind of sorghum traditionally planted on 5th June and harvested on the 20th August, or after about 75 days growth giving the optimum length between ligule (the point at which the stem splits) and tip for the production of properly measured corn brushes. Ha..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Small items
A medium sized black twine bound broom of broom-corn or 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 at which the st..
£75.00
Ex Tax:£62.50
Brand: Small items
A small sized black twine bound broom of broom-corn or 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 at which the ste..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A hand-bound hand broom of broom-corn, a kind of sorghum traditionally planted on 5th June and harvested on the 20th August, or after about 75 days growth giving the optimum length between ligule (the point at which the stem splits) and tip for the production of properly measured corn brushes. Hand ..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Small items
A small hand brush 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 ..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
A longer handled and larger headed hand broom made with a birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark horse hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. In Finland where low relative humidity and extreme cold helps..
£32.00
Ex Tax:£26.67
Brand: Small items
A handled scrubbing brush, made from birch with bristles of tampico fibre — a water and chemically resistant plant fibre from the Mexican Agave Lechugilla. The Swedish tradition of visually impaired craftsmen finding work in the manufacture of brushes continues today in the form of Iris Hantverk, wh..
£21.75
Ex Tax:£18.13
Brand: Small items
A flat scrubbing brush of waxed beech and a fibre known as rice root, which isn't from rice at all, but from zatacon, a grass native to the high arid plains of central Mexico. The bristles are both stiff and remarkably hard wearing - coarser than tampico or union blend, yet not so vicious x metal wi..
£9.00
Ex Tax:£7.50
Brand: Small items
A 'V' shaped scrubbing brush of oiled boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically bar..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
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..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
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..
£5.20
Ex Tax:£4.33
Brand: Small items
A white vitreous ceramic enamel colander with a black rim and bowl diameter of about 18cm. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight variations of temperature and therefore colour and nature of finish. All our Ukrainian enamelware is triple coated onto a heavy steel base, is dishwasher safe, do..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Small items
A set of four mouth blown highball glasses of about 12cm height. Made of recycled glass in a small workshop amidst the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Speedily blown by skilled artisans, these pieces are approximately alike, but the method of production means that they are each unique, with beautif..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
A set of four low glasses of about 6.5cm height. Made of recycled glass in a small workshop amidst the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Speedily blown by skilled artisans, these pieces are approximately alike, but the method of production means that they are each unique, with beautiful bubbles and o..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Small items
A set of four tall wine glasses of about 10cm height, made of recycled glass in a small workshop amidst the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Speedily blown by skilled artisans, these pieces are approximately alike, but the method of production means that they are each unique, with beautiful bubbles and o..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
An Imperial half pint heavyweight tankard with a plain polished finish and simple C shaped handle following a simple unadorned design used in Victorian times as an official Customs and Excise marked one Imperial pint measure. Cast and machined by hand in Sheffield by the pewter-smiths of A R Wentwor..
£43.00
Ex Tax:£35.83