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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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