A dense and soft brush, hand set in an oiled hardwood stock, with a rectangular block of bristles designed for efficient polishing of leather shoes, bags and furniture. Use with our beeswax leather conditioner to bring leather goods up to a gleaming shine. From a family business who have been manufa..
£20.50
Ex Tax:£17.08
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: Redecker
Hand bound Dutch style hand brushes, made of rice straw, which isn't the stems of rice plants but of sorghum a cereal common from the balkans to the tropics. Quite stiff these are ideal for sweeping small areas, especially around a fire, and as the rice straw does not absorb water are suitable for i..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
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: Oversize items
The Siiliharja — hedgehog — is a long bristled birch and union blend (bass and tampico) elegantly curved hand broom from Finland, where it might typically be used to brush snow, ice, dirt, dust, and mud from clothes, boots, and entrance stairs. The vegetable fibre bistles are tough, water resistant,..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
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