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
A miniature or doll's sweeping and cleaning set contained in a neat wooden case. Includes a natural bristle floor broom, red lacquered bucket, metal dustpan, and wood and bristle hand-brush. The case measures approximately 19cm by 8cm by 7cm. From the Redecker company of Versmold, Germany...
£22.50
Ex Tax:£18.75
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
Brand: Oversize items
Red painted beechwood handle, rice straw. Something of a misnomer rice straw is not derived from rice at all but from sorghum a type of cereal growing from the sub-tropics to the Balkans. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small family concern their ..
Brand: Oversize items
Red painted beechwood and horsehair, waxed beech handle. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small family concern their range and quality is second to none. In 2 sizes, the smaller nominally for 1-3 year olds, measures just under 80cm, the larger for ..
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
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: Abbey Horn
Natural ox-horn egg or baby spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. The colours range from white, to translucent amber, through all the shades to black in natural tortoise-shell variations. Horn will not tarnish or taint food stuffs, hence its..
£9.00
Ex Tax:£7.50
Brand: Small items
Natural horn bowls in two sizes, small approximately 100mm in diameter, or large at about 160mm. Ranging from white, to translucent amber, through all the shades to black in natural tortoise-shell variations. These bowl offer a more beautiful and sustainable alternative to plastic. Hand crafted in C..
Brand: Redecker
A turned beech bowl about 14cm in diameter. Traditionally a muesli bowl, but also being 'shatterproof' a good alternative to plastic baby, children's, or even camping bowls. Best washed, rinsed, and dried immediately after use, and occasionally fed with a light non-drying oil...
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Redecker
An untreated beechwood rolling pin for children, or for smaller rolling jobs, with a central metal axle, around which the wooden roller turns. 24cm long including handles, 5cm diameter. Made in Germany...
£6.00
Ex Tax:£5.00
Brand: Small items
A small (about 45mm diameter) turned beech screw-top box for the safe keeping of milk teeth (Milch Zähne), be that by parents for prosteritory or fairies prior to their carving and manufacture of minuscule piano keys. From the workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Friedrich ..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Objects of Use
Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop of Richard Lawrence just a cycle ride away from our shop in central Oxford. These vouchers include a unique code allowing them to be used either onlin..
Brand: Small items
A beach ball shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the pap..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Krumpholz
A premium, smaller scale hand fork, resulting from top-of-the-range German manufacturing, great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. Robust and comfortable, these are made to the same high standards as Krumpholz’s main range, ideal for the budding g..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Krumpholz
A premium, smaller scale hand trowel, resulting from top-of-the-range German manufacturing, great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. Robust and comfortable, these are made to the same high standards as Krumpholz’s main range, ideal for the budding..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Small items
A neat wire-bound flip-top notepad from Midori of Japan, with a cover made using recycled leather made in Valencia, Spain, and an elasticated band to keep the notepad closed between uses. The front section is lined paper and the rear section is plain. Midori’s MD Paper is highly regarded the world o..
£9.50
Ex Tax:£7.92
Brand: Small items
Twelve colourful blocks, of beech and water-based paint, that can be arranged to form a circle or square in red, yellow, and blue. Mix them up to create an endless amount of abstract compositions. Hervé Tullet is an artist, performer, and children’s book author, known for his love of playful, simple..
£51.50
Ex Tax:£42.92
Brand: Small items
Cubebot is a wooden toy robot inspired by Japanese Shinto Kumi-ki puzzles. Made from beech wood and elastic, to a design by David Weeks Studio founded in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in 1996. Cubebot can be positioned to hold dozens of poses. When it's time to rest, Cubebot folds back into a perfect cube. A cla..
£32.50
Ex Tax:£27.08
Cubebot is a wooden toy robot inspired by Japanese Shinto Kumi-ki puzzles. Made from beech wood and elastic, to a design by David Weeks Studio founded in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in 1996. Cubebot can be positioned to hold dozens of poses. When it's time to rest, Cubebot folds back into a perfect cube. A cla..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
This Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy is a remake of the original 1930s Whistling Sparrow. A squeeze of the sprung lever (or ‘tail’) using thumb and forefinger sends air into its bellows. The sparrow then flaps its wings and tweets its whistling chirp. As the wing edges can be sharp, this toy isn’..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Dreilochring — a hollow doughnut-shaped rattle or baby toy, with a hollow interior contains a small wooden ball. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at t..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Griefling rattle — a rattle or baby toy in the shape of a ring with a central bar holding three loose disks, with a hollow interior contains a small wooden ball. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kü..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Laufring Innen — an inner grooved run-ring, with little balls which run around this groove. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at the Hoherfried c..
£39.50
Ex Tax:£32.92
Brand: Small items
Made in the wood workshops of Botton Village of oiled hardwood supplied and sourced by their own sawmill from either the community's own managed woodland or their timber recycling program. Today the Botton woodshop is one of the largest and longest established of all the Camphill workshops providing..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
Der Kleine Schwede, or 'little Sweden', whose vernacular houses these are made to resemble — a tiny dyed and stamped beech building set contained within a classic matchbox. First produced in 1908 in Samuel Friedrich Fischer’s wooden toy factory at Oberseiffenbach in the German Ore mountains, by the ..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
Brand: Small items
The Fröbelgabe No. 5b was conceived by Hermann Goldammer, a student of Fröbel. It contains round building blocks, namely half cylinders, cubes, and triangular blocks. A total of 44 building blocks are included: 12 cubes), 12 triangles, 8 half bridges and 12 half cylinders, all in natural wood tones...
£46.50
Ex Tax:£38.75
Brand: Iris Hantverk
A hand stitched, heart-shaped body brush, made of a pale birch wood and exquisitely soft white goat hair. Designed to fit perfectly in the hand, this may be used on babies, children and adults alike, to relax and soothe. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were fo..
£21.50
Ex Tax:£17.92
Brand: Small items
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibrating whine of an old fashioned air siren. Once beloved by cyclists for its remarkable ability to clear a path through the busiest of streets, it has been..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Hohner
Made of nickel coated brass and with a pearwood comb, the Marine band is virtually unchanged since 1896. In an early example of 'celebrity' endorsement it was named after the famous band led by John Philip Sousa, whose picture still appears on the case. In due course this model became the mo..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
Brand: Clarke
Clarkes original tin penny whistle, created in 1843 by Robert Clarke a farm labourer in Coney Weston in Suffolk. He then walked with his son and a barrow of their belongings to Manchester, where he'd heard opportunities to manufacture abounded, making and selling whistles as he went. The Penny Whist..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Clarke
A simple wooden güiro — a Latin American percussion instrument traditionally consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a stick along the notches to produce a ratchet sound. The güiro is commonly used in Latin American music.Playing the g..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
Classic birch ply and natural hide tambourines with single rows of zils. Played simply with a flick of the wrist, a tap of the frame, or beating of the skin. Perfect for those with a dream to make like Mick Jagger, or Stevie Nicks, or Robert Plant, or Kim Gordon, or Prince, or even Bez (yes we know ..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
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
A wooden musical ball painted red; simple, beautiful, and joyfully tactile, with a single bell inside which will tinkle delightfully when shaken. Made for Sina Spielzeug in Germany in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony near the Czech border and the Ore mountains, an area with a long tradition of wood and..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
A quietly fascinating toy created by the German (geometry obsessed) cabinet maker and graphic designer Fred Voß around the three-dimensionally tessellating rhombic dodecahedron. Each of the formally identical pieces makes up a quarter of this form and drops with satisfying ease into the four ridged ..
£185.00
Ex Tax:£154.17
Brand: Small items
A simple set of nails, wooden hammer, and cork board to gently nail an assortment of colourful wooden shapes to. This play set is ideal for teaching little ones safety when using tools, but also fun for eager hands ready to learn new manual and tactile skills. Made in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony n..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
A 500g pack of rainbow coloured modelling clay – in blue, green, violet, red, yellow, and white, made in the UK. Non-drying, non-toxic, and endlessly reusable...
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
Brand: Small items
A 500g pack of rainbow coloured modelling clay – in green, yellow, orange, red, violet, white, blue and brown, made in the UK. Whilst not as well known as its more famous forebear, this is actually its animation grade equivalent, used by Aardman for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep..
£3.00
Ex Tax:£2.50
Brand: Small items
Hand shaped box wood modelling tools for forming and carving drying and non-drying clays. Single tool randomly selected, multiple orders will have dissimilar selections whenever possible...
£1.20
Ex Tax:£1.00
Brand: Small items
A set of 5 beech wood toy vehicles, made by Sina Spielzeug, to stretch those budding imaginations. The set consists of a Limousine, a Pick-up, a Motorcycle, a Combi and a Bus. The vehicles are compatible with all common wooden rail systems. Turned, machined, lacquered, and finished in the town of Ne..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Takakuwa Metal Co
A three piece baby's cutlery set of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry to in this case a stainless steel substrate, as such it retains the advantages of glass - being largely inert and prone neither to tainting flavours,..
£20.50
Ex Tax:£17.08
Brand: Abbey Horn
Natural ox-horn dessert, breakfast, or child's spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. The colours range from white, to translucent amber, through all the shades to black in natural tortoise-shell variations. Horn will not tarnish or taint..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25