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Brand: Small items
A very simple and traditional potato smasher from Finland made from turned and sanded but untreated Baltic birch. Shaped like a sharply truncated cudgel or soft-ball bat, the smasher is simply used as any masher might be, pushed down onto and into already boiled potatoes. Handmade by the craftspeopl..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
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
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: 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 traditional pure vegetable oil soap with crushed local bilberries - European blueberries, not the North American kind found in supermarkets - made using original and century old cast iron equipment in the town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. Gently exfoliating, and stimulating to circulatio..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Oversize items
A stripped rattan carpet-beater, hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. Triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, measures approximately 70cm by 27cm across the head...
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Oversize items
Stripped rattan carpet-beaters hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. In two sizes, the larger (Carpet beater no.2) is triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, whilst the small..
Brand: Small items
A heat formed and bound rattan cane hanger from Finland, hand produced by the crafts people of a Vaanta based visually impaired workers co-operative. Rattan is a kind of climbing palm or vine the cultivation of which is being encouraged by some conservationists as a means of preserving the forest gr..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: ANNANSILMAT-AITTA
A small long bristled ‘moustachioed’ sink brush of 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 micros..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
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 traditional Finnish fire-formed rattan hook with a hand-carved grip, used for reaching backwards over one's shoulder to press out and massage knots amidst the muscles of the upper back. Simply locate the end of the hook upon a muscular knot or tight area, and pull forward to ease tightness. Rattan..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A long-handled body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, hand stitched with soft black horsehair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently st..
£31.50
Ex Tax:£26.25
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, and hand stitched with light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate, clean,..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, and hand stitched with soft black horse hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate,..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a birch stock and hand stitched with soft light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate, clean, and exfoliate the skin. Best rinsed and left to dry be..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A traditionally made soap containing naturally extracted pine tar from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. Deep brown in colour and imbued with the scent of resinous woodsmoke (pine tar being the liquids exuded as pine roots and stems are slowly heated the point of carbonisation) the soap is gentle ..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A traditionally made pure vegetable oil soap with crushed local sea-buckthorn from the town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. Exfoliating - the soap contains milled fragments of the dried plant’s dried berries and seeds - and mildly astringent, sea-buckthorn is also known for its anti-inflammat..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Small items
A traditionally made soap containing naturally extracted pine tar from Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. Deep brown in colour and imbued with the scent of resinous woodsmoke (pine tar being the liquids exuded as pine roots and stems are slowly heated the point of carbonisation) the soap is gentle ..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Small items
A traditional pure vegetable oil soap with crushed local lingonberries made using original and century old cast iron equipment in the town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. Gently exfoliating, and stimulating to circulation, the mild scrubbing action of the coarsely milled berries makes this an..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
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: Lapuan Kankurit Oy
An eminently cheering two litre hot water bottle enclosed within a high quality 100% wool cover, with a beautifully textured woven-in wavy natural and Rainy Blue stripe, for those times when what is needed is a curl-up on the sofa with a hot drink, a warm throw and something good to read. Made in Fi..
£41.50
Ex Tax:£34.58
Brand: Lapuan Kankurit Oy
An eminently cheering two litre hot water bottle enclosed within a high quality 100% wool cover, with a beautifully textured woven-in wavy natural and Lingonberry stripe, for those times when what is needed is a curl-up on the sofa with a hot drink, a warm throw and something good to read. Made in F..
£41.50
Ex Tax:£34.58
Brand: Small items
A log or blanket storage basket, hand woven of birch strips of between five and seven centimetres width using methods thought to have been in use throughout the Fennoscandian Peninsula since before recorded history. From a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Measuring about 50cm front to ..
£100.00
Ex Tax:£83.33
Brand: Lapuan Kankurit Oy
A two litre hot water bottle enclosed within a high quality South American wool cover, with a woven-in wavy natural and cinnamon stripe, for those times when what is needed is a curl-up on the sofa with a hot drink, a warm throw and something good to read. Made in Finland and Estonia. All yarns are ..
£41.50
Ex Tax:£34.58
Brand: Lapuan Kankurit Oy
A two litre hot water bottle enclosed within a high quality South American wool cover, with a woven-in wavy natural and forest green stripe, for those times when what is needed is a curl-up on the sofa with a hot drink, a warm throw and something good to read. Made in Finland and Estonia. All yarns ..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A sumptuously thick, warm and soft blanket, This product is woven and finished in Lapua from wool yarn spun from certified Wool Integrity New Zealand fibre. The warp used is South American wool fibre spun in Europe. Woven by the master weavers at Lapuan Kankurit, in the Ostrobothnian district of wes..
£150.00
Ex Tax:£125.00
Brand: Small items
A sumptuously warm and thick blanket in Natural Brown with soft white twisted fringes to either end, made as part of Lapuan Kankurit's project aiming to create blankets wholly made in Finland, including the tending of the sheep from whom the wool comes. After the wool is gathered from local sheep fa..
£125.00
Ex Tax:£104.17
Brand: Small items
A sumptuously thick, warm and soft blanket, This product is woven and finished in Lapua from wool yarn spun from certified Wool Integrity New Zealand fibre. The warp used is South American wool fibre spun in Europe. Woven by the master weavers at Lapuan Kankurit, in the Ostrobothnian district of wes..
£150.00
Ex Tax:£125.00
Brand: Oversize items
A heat and water resistant hand stitched broom of arenga fibre - from the trunks of a sugar palm native to maritime Southeast Asia - fixed within a stock of slow growing boreal birch. Originally for cleaning ovens, hearths, and chimneys (arenga withstands high temperatures well) the brush is ideall..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
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 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
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 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: Oversize items
Stripped rattan carpet-beaters hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. In two sizes, the larger (Carpet beater no.2) is triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, whilst the small..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: ANNANSILMAT-AITTA
A long handled giant’s toothbrush shaped bath-tub brush of 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 ..
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
Brand: Small items
A long-handled body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, hand stitched with light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulat..
£31.50
Ex Tax:£26.25
Brand: Small items
A sumptuously warm and thick blanket, made as part of Lapuan Kankurit's project aiming to create blankets wholly made in Finland, including the tending of the sheep from whom the wool comes. After the wool is gathered from local sheep farms, it is washed, spun and woven by the master weavers at Lapu..
£150.00
Ex Tax:£125.00
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