Brand: Small items
A longer handled medium hard black and white hog hair clothes brush with seven fine dense rows of bristle set into a waxed pear-wood stock. For the dusting and de-linting of cashmere, satins, and other fine textiles. From the Redecker family workshop of traditional brush-makers in Germany. 27cm x 3...
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Small items
Pairs of natural bone collar stiffeners, or collar bones if you prefer. In two sizes, small measuring approximately 55mm by 7mm, and large 65mm by 8mm. Superior and less prone to bending than the plastic stays commonly supplied with shirts these days. Hand cut and finished from sterilised cow shin b..
£11.00 – £12.00
Ex Tax:£0.00
Brand: Small items
A traditional wooden straight form shoe horn, shaped from beechwood, oiled and fitted with a leather hanging strap. For general use and portability. Made by a German family business who have been making beautiful household a grooming tools from natural materials for over 75 years. Measures 11.5cm lo..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Small items
A 75cm long shoe or boot horn, made in Japan from bamboo. Long enough to enable the comfortable easing of feet into shoes or boots, without the need to bend over. With a rounded, tapered end to cup the heel, and a hanging loop for convenient storage between uses...
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
An eight ribbed fit-up umbrella-parasol made with a honey coloured, SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame, and with a maple shaft and handle. Fit-umbrellas are made in two parts, with the shaft attached 'fit-up' to the handle, this allows for a slightly lighter weight than is t..
£125.00
Ex Tax:£104.17
Brand: Small items
An eight ribbed fit-up umbrella-parasol made in a bright crimson, SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame, and with a maple shaft and handle. Fit-umbrellas are made in two parts, with the shaft attached 'fit-up' to the handle, this allows for a slightly lighter weight than is typ..
£125.00
Ex Tax:£104.17
Brand: Small items
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hudson sought to replace the sticks and handkerchiefs football referees had used to that point for officiating matches. Whilst the police whistle require..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
The original Acme ‘silent’ dog whistle engineered to produce a fully adjustable range of frequencies between 5400 Hz and 14800 Hz, the lower audible, the higher register near silent to human ears. An improved version of the original (and first silent) design dating back to 110.5035. Each whistle is ..
£39.00
Ex Tax:£32.50
Brand: Small items
Hand-made in France from beech and metal, this blackbird call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulations of their song. Play by sucking and blowing air through the call. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idylli..
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
Brand: Small items
Hand-made in France from boxwood, this cuckoo call is fairly easy to play, the skill being primarily one of rhythm and timing. Play by sucking and blowing air through the call. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhô..
£27.00
Ex Tax:£22.50
Brand: Small items
This handmade boxwood duck call is exceptionally easy to play, making it ideal for younger enthusiasts, however whilst sound like a duck might be easy, talking duck is less so. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhô..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Hand-made in France from beech wood and metal, with skill and practice the chaffinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twittering of one of our more common, and attractive, garden birds. Made by M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-..
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
Brand: Small items
Hand-made of boxwood and brass the goldfinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twittering of one of our more common, and attractive, garden birds. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alp..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Hand-made in France using beech wood, the swallow call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulations of their song. Best with quick light breaths, using the tongue as a stop, and to produce trills. Made by M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood ..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
A simple hand call of metal and wood, which is turned producing friction noise, which with perfection of pressure, speed, and rhythm, imitates well the nightingale's song. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Al..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
A small hand warbler similar to the nightingale call, producing sound from the friction of metal against wood, and which with variation
in pressure and rhythm can well imitate the characteristic song of the European Robin. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
Made from polished boxwood, the Tawny Owl is one of the easier calls to play, tapping a finger upon the top hole whilst quivering ones tongue to emulate the ululating hoots of perhaps the most familiar of all the owls. The Tawny Owl is the only Owl present on every continent on the planet. Made by M..
£27.00
Ex Tax:£22.50
Brand: Small items
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instruments so that he and others might communicate with the birds he saw there, creating 'toys' that he hopes might inspire in their users..
£37.00
Ex Tax:£30.83
Brand: Small items
A beautiful Kalimba with 11 tines made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. The tines are arraanged in two rows, the lower of which are tuned to a G major scale, these notes make it perfect for intuitive playing as well as for a number of well-known tunes. Relaxing and meditative..
£90.00
Ex Tax:£75.00
Brand: Small items
A beautifully intuitive Kalimba with 5 tines tuned to an F minor arpeggio — no wrong notes! Made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. Relaxing and meditative, and simple enough for anyone to pick up and play beautiful music with. While the Kalimba has a short history dating back ..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A beautiful Kalimba with 9 tines made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. The tines are arranged in two rows, the lower of which is tuned to an A minor arpeggio with an added 9th, the higher to an F major arpeggio. These notes all sound beautiful together, and its impossible to ..
£69.00
Ex Tax:£57.50
Brand: Small items
A set of twelve beautifully crafted musical balls — two each of red, green, yellow, orange, blue, and purple — in a cotton bag. Simple and beautiful rattles, each colour produces a specific and distinct sound when shaken, matching colours to sounds in a synesthetic game of pairing. A timeless heirlo..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Small items
An absorbing and endlessly creative toy consisting of 250 brightly coloured lacquered wooden balls, and a double sided board, machined on one side with in a square pattern, and on the other off-set in a manner akin to honeycomb, allowing for the construction of both two and three dimensional pattern..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Small items
A beautifully crafted pattern making kit comprised of three different European woods, namely maple, pear and walnut, the colours of which allow for an orthographically three-dimensional effect when laid correctly — more challenging, perhaps, than it first appears. A myriad of arrangements are possib..
£62.00
Ex Tax:£51.67
Brand: Small items
A simple yet creative pattern making toy consisting of 60 diamond shaped child safe lacquered wooden tiles, 10 in each of the primary and secondary colours which can be endlessly re-combined into larger geometric and op-art patterns. Machined, lacquered, and finished in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
An assortment of 76 building blocks of beechwood, made by Sina Spielzeug of Germany; mind fodder for budding imaginations. Designed with Fröbel's educational gifts in mind, the set consists of a number of spheres, cubes and cylinders, as well as their partial shapes, to which have been added disks, ..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
A complex muscle rub blended by a small family producer in the forests of Swedish lapland from locally harvested beeswax, rapeseed oil, peppermint oil, cajeput oil, and camphor oil. This is a new vegetarian formulation of a traditional liniment that had long been made using rendered bear fat, a rare..
£32.00
Ex Tax:£26.67
Brand: Iris Hantwerk AB
A small oiled beech and horsehair dustpan and brush set designed for sweeping crumbs from the table. The brush fits neatly inside the pan, in a manner somewhat akin to a jigsaw, and has in its handle a hole from which both will hang. Beautifully made in the workshops of Iris Hantverk, Sweden, where ..
£39.00
Ex Tax:£32.50
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with dark feathers, a varnished softwood handle, a black leather cuff and hanging band, and a total length of about 50cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-Westfalia. Genuine ostrich dusters are considered b..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with a clear varnished whitewood handle, a dark leather cuff, hanging band, and a large exceptionally soft white feather head. It is ideal for the most delicate items. Total length about 65cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and ..
£45.00
Ex Tax:£37.50
A double pronged brush of mixed dark goat hair wound into approximately 34cm stainless steel wire stocks attached to an oiled beech handle. The long bent tipped prongs allow cleaning and dusting behind and between radiator deep fins and other narrow hard to reach places. From a small family bu..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Redecker
120cm, twisted, PVC sheathed, stainless steel wire, black goat hair, about 30cm of brush, 120cm total length. Very flexible shaft, for cleaning behind and between radiator fins and other hard to reach places. From Germany...
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
For the cleaning of Venetian blinds. Goat hair, steel wire, and beech. The four brushes are designed to slide between and along the blind slats, quickly and effectively dusting these hard to reach niches. Made in Germany in the workshops of a small but long established family of brush-makers. The fo..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A simple hand stitched dust-brush of beech, steel wire, and soft goat hair of creamy white or dun grey. For the quick dusting of delicate surfaces, furniture, and small moveables. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were founded to provide traditional handcraft em..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Redecker
With an oiled pear-wood handle and a hand sewn head of long, fine, and exceptionally soft goat hair, either light with a dark spot, or the reverse. Leather loop for hanging. A slightly more accurate alternative to the feather duster, and one which may be used with a little more vigour. Hand stitched..
£32.50
Ex Tax:£27.08
Brand: Redecker
With an oiled pear-wood handle and a hand sewn head of long, fine, and exceptionally soft goat hair, either light with a dark spot, or the reverse. Leather loop for hanging. A slightly more accurate alternative to the feather duster, and one which may be used with a little more vigour. Hand stitched..
£32.50
Ex Tax:£27.08
Brand: Redecker
A handsome cobweb brush with a long reach (80cm) handle turned from beech and finished with wax. This traditionally shaped round brush head is fitted with soft black horsehair bristles, and has two slots to the head, so that the brush head can be removed and re-positioned, allowing for two angle set..
£50.00
Ex Tax:£41.67
Brand: Redecker
A flat-profiled brush made of oiled beechwood fitted with two brush heads, one of soft goat hair for dusting the computer’s screen, the other a single row of light bristles for cleaning between rows of keys and dusting tight crevices. From the German workshops of the Redecker company, who since thei..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Redecker
Pearwood, goathair and bristle, about 28cm in length, leather loop for hanging. A front section of strong bristles is for the removal of more stubborn dirt from book spines, the softer goathair for the gentle dusting of page edges. From a small family business in Germany who have been hand making br..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Iris Hantwerk AB
Bath tub brush, common in Japan and on the continent, and used for cleaning baths quickly and without scratching, although we think it would make a pretty good general cleaning, or soft scrubbing brush, made of birch and tampico fibre, from the Agave Lechugilla, a plant native to the highland desert..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Large items
A natural toilet brush made with an untreated beech stock filled with an extra hard union blend of dark palmyra fibres from South East Asia, mixed with yellow tampico from Mexico. From a small family owned brush-making workshop in Germany who have been making brushes using traditional materials and ..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Small items
A resin-set dust brush made with pure hog bristle, with a natural wooden handle — traditionally used by decorators to clean woodwork and decorative panels prior to painting. Slightly stiffer than our goat-hair dust-brushes, these are ideal for dusting more robust items, cobwebs, or those with more d..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Small items
A black hog bristled dust brush set with three separately ferruled heads giving a less dense, therefore softer head whilst retaining the spring of stiffer bristles. Ideal for more robust items, small cobwebs, or things with more deeply ingrained and heavier build ups of grime. From the company of R...
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
A solid box grater with 4 different grating or slicing surfaces. This high-quality grater can be used to grate fruit, vegetables, nuts, hard cheese, chocolate and much more effortlessly and quickly. The sharp stainless steel blades ensure excellent grading results with little effort. Using the..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
A very solid handheld shaver from Italian maker Eppicotispai located in the Lago Maggiore region — nestled in the footbed of the Alpine mountains. Using 18/10 high specification stainless steel, the serrated blade makes this slicer ideal for creating delicate flakes of rich truffles, but can also be..
£23.00
Ex Tax:£19.17
A very solid handheld shaver from Italian maker Eppicotispai located in the Lago Maggiore region — nestled in the footbed of the Alpine mountains. Using 18/10 high specification stainless steel, the straight blade makes this slicer ideal for creating delicate flakes of rich truffles, but can also be..
£23.00
Ex Tax:£19.17
Brand: Samuel Lamont
Natural unbleached linen scrim, hard wearing, lint free, the best material for polishing glass, also good as an all round cleaning cloth, polishing cloth, or duster, wet or dry, with waxes or detergents. The scrim should be boiled before use to remove the size that aids weaving so improving absorben..
£8.00
Ex Tax:£6.67
A classic nutmeg grater, for when a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg is just the thing. With a handy hanging hole, so you can keep it easily to hand, this dome-fronted small crown grater has a storage space stowed behind, with a lid to cover the whole nutmegs stored within. 15 x 5.3 x 2.6cm...
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
A set of three high quality shish kebab skewers, forged and pointedwith a special flat shape along the shank, which cleverly prevents meat pieces from twisting during cooking. These high-quality reusable skewers are made of stainless steel and are a must for barbecueing: The pointed end makes ..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
A beautifully engineered stainless steel ice-cream scoop. With a 5cm diameter, deep scoop head with straight rim, this tool forms beautiful and even scoops of ice cream, chocolate mousse, firm creams and purees. With the help of the practical sliding mechanism, the shaped delicacies can be easily re..
£19.00
Ex Tax:£15.83