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A well finished stitched horsehair hand brush for floor sweeping, with a beech wood and black-painted handle, with a hole for hanging. Horsehair is a great natural fibre for sweeping brushes, with anti-static qualities and a soft but effective feel. From the workshops of Iris Hantverk in Swede..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Redecker
A slimline brush with super-soft natural bristles, perfect for dusting vinyl records, paintings and other household surfaces, including fragile items that are prone to scratching. Made from a very soft, light goat hair bristle with a simple beechwood handle created in the workshops of a family run b..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A small simple and lightweight dustpan of galvanised steel fitted with a looped wire handle, all held together without use of welding, rivets, or fastenings. Pressed, trimmed, finished, and assembled largely by hand in a small metal workers shop in Osaka — a company who have specialised in the fabri..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
Dustpans of pressed and folded fairly heavy gauge sheet steel, with welded loop handles and a flexible rubber lip. Powder coated either red or black. From Iris Hantverk whose Swedish and Estonian workshops provide training and employment for visually impaired craftsmen in the making of artisan brush..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Small items
A surprisingly sturdy yet lightweight dustpan of pressed and folded cardboard, with metal rivets and a hanging ribbon. From Iris Hantverk whose Swedish and Estonian workshops provide training and employment for visually impaired craftsmen in the making of artisan brushes, cleaning aids and bathroom ..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A black powder coated pressed steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since th..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A pressed stainless steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since their foundi..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
A white powder coated pressed steel dustpan with an oiled beech handle, leather hanging loop, and rubber lip. Ideal for use all around the house and garden, although perhaps given the colour it might be best suited for use in the dry. From the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since th..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Oversize items
A traditionally made Chinese broom of whole and split golden bamboo, with a long handle made from a single stem of dried bamboo, and a fan-shaped head made from split stems, hand formed and tightly wire-bound. A lightweight but stiff brush ideal for the quick and regular sweeping of yards or smaller..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Redecker
Handheld cobweb broom made of soft horse hair twisted into a machine made wire frame. Ideal for clearing dust and cobwebs from amongst the beams and recesses of higher ceilings. Made in Germany by a small family run company of brush-makers who have been making brushes using traditional methods since..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
A pure natural bristle cobweb brush hand set in an oiled hardwood stock, with a long handle, finished with a turned-wood topper. Perfect for removing even high-up cobwebs, with a flared head for reaching more awkward corners, and a lightweight feel (just 200g in weight), for effortless de-cobwebbing..
£23.50
Ex Tax:£19.58
Brand: Small items
A outdoor broom made from the leaf stalks of coconut palm trees and bound with coconut rope. The water-resistant nature of coconut fibre makes this broom ideal for sweeping leaves on paving or grass. Handmade in the the workshops of a small German brushmakers. Supplied with a poplar wood handle, and..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Large items
A large, 12” by 3" waxed beech stock with 15 x 4 rows of stiff long 4” natural bassine fill, heavy duty shippon or yard broom. Perfect for scrubbing moss, dirt, and leaves from yards, flags, and cobbles, or sweeping hay from a shippon or stable. Made with renewable and biodegradable palmyra fibre, t..
£37.00
Ex Tax:£30.83
Brand: Oversize items
A mid-length, bamboo-handled, copper-bound, five bundle shuro floor broom particularly recommended for wooden (or tatami) floors as the fibres contain natural oils especially beneficial to these surfaces. Shuro is an interwoven fibrous sheath harvested from the trunk of hemp palms. Made using tradit..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A hand-sewn, shaped, and assembled dark horsehair broom with a waxed and dyed beech stock, and detachable softwood handle. The moderately soft fine bristles are ideally suited to the sweeping of most internal floors, collecting dust and fine particles more effectively than stiffer synthetic or veget..
£49.50
Ex Tax:£41.25
Brand: Redecker
A beautiful low kick broom ideal for delicate parquet, hardwood, marble, or smooth stone floors. Made of exceptionally soft goat-hair hand sewn into an oiled oak stock. From a family owned and run brush making workshop in the town of Versmold, in North Rhine-Westphalia, a company who since the 1930s..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
Brand: Small items
A small brush for table-tops and small spaces — this little brush is made in Japan from the palm fibres of Trachycarpus fortune (otherwise known as shuro), bound together with copper wire. Great for careful sweeping of bonsai and other potted plants, corners of terraces and patios, ground covers suc..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Iris Hantwerk AB
A hand drawn brush of long arenga fibre stitched into a birch stock and handle. Arenga - derived from the trunks of a South East Asian sugar palm - is considered one of the hardest wearing of all natural brush fibres, traditionally used for marine ropes and caulk, its water resistance and flexibilit..
£79.00
Ex Tax:£65.83
Brand: Oversize items
A long, bamboo-handled, copper-bound, seven bundle shuro floor broom particularly recommended for wooden (or tatami) floors as the fibres contain natural oils especially beneficial to these surfaces. Shuro is an interwoven fibrous sheath harvested from the trunk of hemp palms. Made using traditional..
£72.00
Ex Tax:£60.00
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: Iris Hantwerk AB
Swedish broom suitable for outdoor or indoor use, made from birch and palmyra fibre (bassine) from the same Indian palm as the 'delicious' sago. In Sweden, there is a tradition of visually impaired craftsmen finding work in the manufacture of brushes. This continues today in the form of Iris Hantwer..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Small items
A medium 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 st..
£75.00
Ex Tax:£62.50
Brand: Small items
Three 70g tins of natural household care balms, made in the Chilterns by apiarist John Farrell, who cares for around 30 hives in the Southern Chilterns. A rich and protective chopping board conditioner, made with wax taken from the honey comb capping (the purest form of raw beeswax); a furnitur..
£37.50
Ex Tax:£31.25
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
Brand: Small items
A high-quality traditional mop head made from twisted cotton fibre, with a galvanised steel socket top, for fitting a wooden handle to. Use with our galvanised mop bucket to polish your floors to a tidy shine, without the use of plastics. ..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
A simple broom with a handsome arched hardwood stock, with stiff union fibre bristles, made in Colchester, UK. Use to scrub clear decking and patios — used wet or dry, this broom's firm bristles will effortlessly clean mossy and grimy build-up from outdoor areas. Union fibre is a combination of two ..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
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
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 variation on the humble school cloakroom hook from Anderstorp in Sweden. Made from heavy gauge bent steel bar rather than the more commonly found and more easily bent aluminium, these are also distinguished by the wisdom of the down curving top hook, which is both safer and kinder to clothing, as ..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
Brand: Small items
A variation on the humble school cloakroom hook from Anderstorp in Sweden. Made from heavy gauge bent steel bar rather than the more commonly found and more easily bent aluminium, these are also distinguished by the wisdom of the down curving top hook, which is both safer and kinder to clothing, as ..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
Brand: Small items
An array of 12 hooks cut and folded with an attractive simplicity from a single piece of sheet steel in Anderstorp, Sweden. The hooks themselves, although nominally key holders, are strong enough to hold clothing, dog leads, or dare we suggest it - brushes, making them an ideal framework for the vis..
£47.00
Ex Tax:£39.17
A simple two peg hanging rack made of slow growing and sustainably sourced baltic birch in the workshops of Iris Hantverk, where in excess of 30 visually impaired craftsmen find skilled employment in the hand manufacture of brushes and other well considered household moveables. Useful as a small coa..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Large items
A simple four peg hanging rack made of slow growing and sustainably sourced baltic birch in the workshops of Iris Hantverk, where in excess of 30 visually impaired craftsmen find skilled employment in the hand manufacture of brushes and other well considered household moveables. Useful as a small co..
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
Brand: Small items
A hand crafted dog toy, or koiran lelu, made of recycled eco-cotton in blue and white. Each chew toy is braided by hand for SokkoTaito Oy, a Finnish company created by Kaisa Penttilä who, as part of her entrepeneurship, speaks publicly about living with a visual impairment - supported by her sympath..
£19.00
Ex Tax:£15.83
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: 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: Small items
A traditional laundry board, for the effective cleaning of hand-washed laundry. Shaped from beech wood, by craftspeople in Tochigi, Japan, the board's deep, curved parallel ridges assist with the proper washing of fabrics. Use with natural soap (our Marseille white soap is perfect), to naturally cle..
£29.00
Ex Tax:£24.17
Brand: Small items
A simple clip or peg, shaped from steel sheet into the shape of a fish. Hand made by a small family enterprise in India. These strong little clips are great for use in the kitchen, for sealing bags of food, etc, for holding papers together on your desk, or any other use you can think of! One peg sup..
£2.40
Ex Tax:£2.00
Brand: Small items
A set of five strong aluminium clothes pegs or cloth grips from Tokyo. Each grip is supplied with a split ring attached to the back of one jaw allowing them to be threaded directly onto a suspended line, meaning they need not become lost or misplaced as is typically the case with standard pegs, and ..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Iris Hantwerk AB
In Sweden, there is a tradition of visually impaired craftsmen finding work in the manufacture of brushes. This continues today in the form of Iris Hantverk, which not only employs over 30 such individuals but also produces some of the worlds most beautiful and high quality brushes. These however ar..
£94.00
Ex Tax:£78.33
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
A simple brush with stiff union fibre bristles and a hardwood stock, made in Colchester, UK. Use gently to remove stubborn stains from tougher fabrics, and upholstery (patch test first). Union fibre is a combination of two natural plant fibres from the Tampico and Palmyra (palm tree) plants, c..
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Redecker
A clothes brush made from waxed pear-wood and strong black natural hog bristle. This classic clothes brush is mounted with seven rows of bristle and makes an ideal dressing table or cloak room brush. Grooves for finger and thumb run along the sides of the brush, for a comfortable hold while you work..
£28.50
Ex Tax:£23.75
Brand: Small items
This lightweight pumice-like stone provides a simple yet effective method of removing pilling from woollens and other fabric items such as upholstery, towels and bedding. An environmentally friendly alternative to the plug-in devices designed for the same purpose. To use, simply smooth continuously ..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Redecker
Five blocks of approximately 70mm by 50mm by 18mm red cedar. Ideal for hanging as is in a wardrobe or stashing loose in drawers. Red cedar heartwood contains natural aromatic oils that both kill young moth larvae and repel adult moths, the balls being effective for as long as the smell remains when ..
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Small items
A 10ml bottle of essential oil of red cedar. Western red cedar has long been used to help deter moth infestations. This pure oil can be used alone, or to refresh existing blocks or balls. Do not ingest...
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Small items
A soft shoe polishing brush made from oiled beech and dark horsehair. Best used after the shoes have been allowed to absorb the (sparingly applied) polish for about 15 minutes to buff the leather back to a deep shine, before a final high polish with a fine soft cloth. Like many things, an approach o..
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
Brand: Small items
Ekoxe is Swedish for stag beetle, but seems ideally suited to this exotic and dare we say it, slightly creepy, bootjack designed by Oskar Karlsson in the early twentieth century. A keen entomologist Karlsson collected a specimen stag beetle during national service in Karlskrona. Taking it home to hi..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Abbey Horn
A natural ox-horn shoe or boot horn, hand formed and polished in Carnforth, Lancashire, using techniques and processes that have barely changed for centuries. Cut along the grain of the horn for strength, and subject to natural variations in colour ranging from almost white, through translucent ambe..
£88.00
Ex Tax:£73.33
Brand: Small items
A traditional wooden straight form shoe horn, shaped from beechwood, oiled and fitted with a leather hanging strap. Useful for putting on boots, or for those with limited mobility. Made by a German family business who have been making beautiful household and grooming tools from natural materials for..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50