Small items

A simple, classic, clipboard with a durable metal clip, which doubles as a handy wall-hanging device. The board is manufactured from smooth, recycled hardwood fibreboard. Measuring 229 x 153mm, this is a usefully sized clipboard, suitable for use with A5 and smaller, ideal for keeping handy notes on..

A balloon powered rocket car, handmade from local timber and birch ply off cuts at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organic agriculture, c..

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’..

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’..

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’..

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..

A rubber band powered paddle boat, handmade from local timber at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organic agriculture, craft workshops, gourmet..

A simple wooden push car, handmade from local timber and non toxic child-safe dyes at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of nearly two hundred learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organ..

Klangturm translates as Tower of Sound, hence the name of this many coloured musical tower from Hohenfried Werkstätten. Easily mistaken for a naive rainbow sculpture or else some kind of creative storage solution, this is rather a kind of musical toy. Marbles are dropped onto the highest level and p..

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..

A toy of simple Bauhaus inspired geometric shapes and primary colours created in 2011 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of SINA Speilzeug and the result of a collaboration between cabinet maker and designer Fred Voß (of Pyrom fame), bauhaus-archiv gmbh, and SINA themselves. Turned, m..

A set of six beautifully made wooden toy balls, simple yet colourful, and pleasing to play with and to hold. Coloured Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Violet with non-toxic paints. Designed with Fröbel in mind and made for Sina Spielzeug in Germany in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony near the Cze..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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 ..

A soft, chunky-knit, 100% cotton baby blanket in a natural, un-dyed ivory colour. Perfect for cozying up and swaddling a newborn. Designed by Yumiko Sekine, founder of Fog Linen Works. Sekine started her first business in 1993 importing goods from around the world to Japan — finding a shortage of af..

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 ..

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..

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, ..

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..

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..

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...

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 ..

The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone sound of the whistle can be heard up to 2 miles distant, and the mouth piece is shaped such that the whistle can be held between the teeth, leaving the ha..

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..

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..

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..

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 ..

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 ..

Sharpening stones specially designed for secateurs, but also great for shears, topiary clippers and other bladed garden tools. The concave edge follows the curve of the blade perfectly, and they’re small enough to get into tight spaces. Soak for 5 minutes before use. #1000 grit, 136g, 131 x 20 x 23m..

A 7.5cm mini sharpening steel, for portable sharpening on hand whenever you need it. Designed and made in France. Great for sharpening all of Opinel’s pocket knives, this stainless steel steel, whilst diminutive, is a high quality sharpening tool suitable for small tools and knives. Opinel have been..

A small, portable natural sharpening stone of about 320 to 400 grit. Quarried in the vicinity of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, this is a good stone for regular sharpening of all pocket knives, especially when travelling or camping when bench stones might be too impractically heavy to carry. Used with wa..

A ceramic whetstone from Shapton in 1500 grit, great for kitchen knives, chisels, planes etc. Shapton's Professional range has long been admired for its efficient cutting, and is a firm favourite among woodworkers. Somewhere around #1000 and #2000 is the perfect grade for regular kitchen knife sharp..

A small and portable natural sharpening stone quarried in the Pyrenees, from Pallarès Solsona of Catalonia. Natural stone is very hard and will quickly sharpen blades of kitchen or pockets knives, or garden tools. Use wet (soak for a few minutes first. 10cm x 1.5cm x 1.5cm...

A general purpose sharpening stone, great for sharpening kitchen knives and other bladed items. This is a natural stone, from the Pyrenees area in the north of Spain. The stone is set into a wooden case for stability during use. Measures 200 x 33mm...

An oval profile, beech-handled screwdriver with precision-ground, tempered steel blade for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have specialised in the production of fine joiners hand tools since 1840. Some of their methods may have changed, many have not..

An oval profile, beech-handled screwdriver with precision-ground, tempered steel blade for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have specialised in the production of fine joiners hand tools since 1840. Some of their methods may have changed, many have not..

A left-handed version of Joseph Marples' classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with walnut handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experie..

A left-handed varient of a classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with Rosewood handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience producin..

A classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with Rosewood handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience producing joiners and cabinet mak..

A 6 inch spirit level made of rosewood, with upper brass plates, and lower brass tipped ends. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience of producing the finest joiners, and cabinet makers tools. Whilst time might have changed (only) some of their methods their commitme..

A 9 inch spirit level made of rosewood, with upper brass plates, and lower brass tipped ends. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience of producing the finest joiners, and cabinet makers tools. Whilst time might have changed (only) some of their methods their commitme..

A small folding saw, made in Sanjo, Japan, for fine pruning jobs in the garden, with specially shaped beechwood handle and a simple locking device to keep the blade in place. Ibara-me teeth are angled to cut both along and across the grain, giving a very fast, efficient action. Made with SK5 steel, ..

A well balanced Japanese carpenter's hammer with a 300 gram octagonal head Japanese white oak handle. A more subtle tool than its deceptively pure form might suggest, the two end faces are dissimilar, one being ground flat for the clean striking of chisels the other slightly convex allowing nails to..

A round carpenters Japanese maple mallet, from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture,Japan. Used for light chiselling work and close and more delicate joinery work such as carefully tapping home pegs during the assembly or disassembly of kumiki joints. The head measures 48mm x 130mm ..