Objects for use whilst cleaning, brushes, dusters, mops and buckets, brooms from Europe and Japan
Objects for use whilst cleaning, brushes, dusters, mops and buckets, brooms from Europe and Japan

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Compostable scouring pads made of lightly pressed loofah. Surprisingly loofah is a type of vine related to cucumbers and courgettes, the loofah sponge..

Loofah scouring pads
£7.50
Eaux de cologne from Laboratoires Cadentia of Aubagne, Provence producers of authentic traditionally blended small batch perfumes since 1945. Intended..

Cadentia eau de cologne, Lavender
£18.00
A 1 litre bottle of black potassium olive oil soap made to a unique recipe in Salon-de-Provence since 1900. Batch processed and long simmered in large..

Black olive oil soap, savon noir 1 litre
£9.50
A 750ml spray bottle of black potassium olive oil soap made to a unique recipe in Salon-de-Provence since 1900. Batch processed and long simmered in l..

Liquid Savon Noir spray, 750ml
£13.50
1 litre pure vegetable oil liquid soap for hand or washing pots and dishes. From Salon-de-Provence where they have been made using the Marseille metho..

Marseille soap flakes dishwashing liquid, 1 litre
£10.00
A 1 litre bottle of pure vegetable oil liquid soap for hand or machine washing of delicate fabrics. From Salon-de-Provence where they have been made u..

Marseille soap laundry liquid 1L (white)
£10.50
A traditional and natural Swedish leather treatment made of lanolin, naturally extracted pine tar, birch oil, and spruce resin. Originating before the..

Kängskosmorning - Bear Cream leather protection
£14.50
A light natural Swedish leather treatment made with only lanolin, organic vegetable oils, essential birch oil, and beeswax. With the natural water rep..

Lädersmorning leather grease
£14.50
A choice of four natural ostrich feather dusters made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-..

Feather dusters nos. 1 thro' 4
£24.00 – £48.50
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, quick..

Blind brush
£20.00
A simple hand stitched dust-brush of beech, steel wire, and soft goat hair of creamy white or dun grey. For the quick dusting of delicate surfaces, fu..

Dust-brush no.2
£16.50
With an oiled pear-wood handle and a hand sewn head of long, fine, and exceptionally soft goat hair, either light with a dark spot, or the reverse. Le..

Dust-brush no.4
£32.50
An interestingly shaped brush made of oiled beechwood fitted with two brush heads, one of soft goat hair for dusting especially screen, the other a si..

Computer brush
£30.00
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 imp..

Finnish bathtub brush
£21.00
A small long bristled ‘moustachioed’ sink brush of boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired wo..

Finnish sink brush
£26.50
A resin set pure light hog bristle dust brush of a type traditionally used by decorators to clean woodwork and decorative panels prior to painting. S..

Lily dusting brush
£11.50
A natural toilet brush made with an untreated beech stock filled with an extra hard union blend of dark palmyra fibres from South East Asia, mixed wit..

Toilet brush
£8.50
Double sided, weighty, 100% washed linen kitchen towels, with a cotton hanging loop. Woven by the master weavers at Lapuan Kankurit, in the Ostrobothn..

Finnish 100% washed linen kitchen towels
£18.00
Knitted copper-wire cloths, set of 2. 14.5 x 15.5cm. More gentle than steel and better wearing than plastic equivalents, these copper scourers are mad..

2 copper cloths
£6.50
A pack of 2 knitted copper scourers. Gentle but hard-wearing, longer lasting than plastic equivalents and entirely recyclable...

Copper scourers
£6.50
A small cleaning brush of natural bristle wound into a loop of twisted stainless steel wire. Designed for cleaning sinks, but also an ideal washing up..

Round sink brush
£5.50
A choice of three wire, bristle, and beech handled bottle brushes from a small German family run company who have specialised in the making of natural..

Various bottle brushes
£4.50 – £10.50
Oiled birch, and either horsehair or tampico fibre. Tampico is a vegetable fibre harvested from the Agave Lechugilla, a plant originally native to the..

Iris Hantverk dishbrushes
£14.50
Dish brushes in the classic circular headed style, made from beech, stainless steel wire and either soft horsehair, or stiffer tampico fiber. The head..

Vardag dish brushes
£3.50 – £5.50
A hand bound dushbrush of blackened boreal birch stitched to 40% dark horsehair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired wor..

Finnish black dishbrush
£16.50
Traditional and beautiful washing up whisks, either with a single red winding, or double natural buff. Made of rice root, which isn't rice at all ..

Double winding Swedish scrubbing whisk
£7.50
Traditional and beautiful washing up whisks, either with a single red winding, or double natural buff. Made of rice root, which isn't rice at all ..

Single winding Swedish scrubbing whisk
£7.50
A medium stiff scrubbing whisk, or small hand brooms made of black arenga fibre harvested without felling from the trunks of sugar palms. Slightly sof..

Finnish arenga (black) whisk, straight, double winding
£17.50
A stiff looped scrubbing whisk made of rice root - the stripped and dried roots of zatacon, a Mexican desert grass. These makes excellent pot scrubber..

Finnish rice root (yellow) looped whisk
£16.50
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from unstripped beech and h..

Natural beech desk brush
£24.00
Oil treated birch, 485mm by 49mm. For Iris Hantverk brushes, and made by visually impaired craftsmen in their Swedish workshops from locally, and sust..

Brushrack
£20.00
Round washing up, general scrubbing, or pan brushes made of birch filled with either a stiff union blend - a mix of tampico and darker palmyra fibres ..

Pan brushes union blend or tampico
£22.00
A handmade stiff washing up brush, made of oiled birch and a union blend of tampico and palmyra fibers. From the Swedish and Estonian workshops of Iri..

Standing pan brush
£17.50
Stripped rattan carpet-beaters hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. In two sizes, the la..

Carpet beaters no. 2 & 3
£22.00 – £40.00
A pure black and white hogs bristle broom head, resin set by hand in to an oiled hardwood stock. Perfect for sweeping hard indoor floors, the natural ..

12" broom
£24.00
Hand drawn brushes of long arenga fibre stitched into a birch stocks and handles. Arenga - derived from the trunks of a South East Asian sugar palm - ..

Porch and boot brooms
£45.00 - £49.00
A 13” by 3.5

Yard or shippen broom
£27.00
Born of a collaboration between Oji Masanori and a cooperative of ‘Edo’ broom makers and a testament to both their skill and artistry, the kake brooms..

Sojirushi brooms
£80.00 – £170.00
Long seven bundle or mid-length five bundle dark bamboo handled copper bound shuro (an interwoven fibrous sheath harvested from the trunk of hemp pal..

Two lengths of shuro broom
£70.00 – £110.00
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..

Child's sweeper
£10.00 – £12.00
Red painted beechwood and horsehair, waxed beech handle. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small fa..

Child's room broom
£18.50 – £20.50
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. ..

Dustpan no.2
£10.00
Extremely lightweight but eminently useable dustpans from Japan, made up of folded, glued, stapled, and riveted layers of Japanese paper stiffened wit..

Dustpan no.4 – Harimi
£24.00 – £30.00
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 g..

Flat white dustpan dustpan no.11
£16.00
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, alt..

Stainless steel dustpan no.12
£17.00
A pure natural hog bristle bannister brush hand set in an oiled hardwood stock. Perfect for sweeping any hard floor area, and with a flared pale colou..

Hand broom no.1 - hog hair
£12.50
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 ..

Hand broom no.3 - horse hair
£14.00 – £18.50
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 ..

Hand broom no.5 - viska
£22.50
Hand brooms from Japan made of bound broom corn, a type of sorghum (also called rice straw) which was traditionally planted on the 5th June and harves..

Japanese hand brooms - Gunma & Tsuga
£35.00 – £70.00
A fairly soft hand broom made with a pine tar treated birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark horse hai..

Hand broom no.8, Finnish black hand broom
£24.50
A machine wound stainless steel wire and stiff horsehair double ended brush for cleaning between spokes, around gear mechanisms, and under mudguards, ..

Bicycle and wheel brush
£9.50
Handled scrubbing brushes, made from birch, with bristles of either tampico - a water and chemically resistant plant fibre from the Mexican Agave Lech..

Scrubbing brushes nos. 1 & 2
£17.00
A flat scrubbing brush of waxed beech and a fibre known as rice root, which isn't from rice at all, but from zatacon, a grass native to the high arid ..

Scrubbing brush No.6, zatacon scrubber
£9.00
The traditional mop head is made from heavy weight 16 ply cotton thread, and is ideal for wet mopping. The bucket from galvanised sheet steel and is e..

Mop and bucket
£3.50 – £23.50
A grass green vitreous ceramic enamel teapot of approximately 1 litre, or more traditionally 6 cups capacity. Firing in a traditional kiln results in ..

Ukrainian enamel teapot, grass green
£24.00
An approximately 2.5 litre, 15cm diameter and 20cm high lidded milk can or kitchen caddies from Ukraine, useful for storage, fermenting, or holding co..

Ukrainian enamel milk can / kitchen caddy, yellow
£30.00
A rich and protective chopping board conditioner to keep your boards in tip top condition. With only two ingredients: food grade mineral oil and beesw..

English beeswax chopping board conditioner
£12.50
A rich and protective un-pigmented furniture polish to keep your wooden furniture in good condition. Made using raw linseed oil, beeswax and carnauba ..

English beeswax furniture polish
£10.50
A rich and protective leather conditioner to keep your shoes, chairs, bags &c in tip top condition. Made in the Chilterns by apiarist John Farrell, us..

English beeswax leather conditioner
£10.50
A lozenge shaped vegetable brush, handmade from birch sewn with 'union blend', a mix of tampico from Mexico, and palmyra fibre from the same Indian pa..

Vegetable brush no.2
£10.00
Packs of 10 superior German made waxed beech clothes pegs of either the two piece sprung coiled fulcrum design, or else the more traditional dolly peg..

Beech pegs
£3.20 – £3.60
A 72% palm oil soap from Marseille where it has been made using the traditional method since 1856. Batch processed in large cauldrons that are heated ..

White Savon de Marseille, Fer à Cheval, 300 grams
£5.50
A 72% olive oil soap from a factory in Marseille which has been producing this archetypal soap since 1856. Dampen the stick and gently rub the stain b..

Marseille laundry stick, 150g
£3.00
A gentle all-purpose soap made in Heidelberg by Klar Seifen, established by Phillip Klar in 1840. Use for showering, as a shampoo for greasy hair, as ..

Klar curd soap
£3.50
A remarkable pure vegetable hand and ‘universal household’ soap made using traditional methods and using century old cast iron plant in Vaasa on the w..

Pore household soap
£5.00
A deceptively simple, highly functional soap dish, the product of a collaboration between designer Tim Toomey and woodworkers LulaJames, based in Long..

Oxfordshire wooden soap stand
£19.50
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) po..

Shoe brush, dark horsehair
£21.00
A compact shoe care set, consisting of a Swedish birch box with inset handle, filled with a carefully chosen selection of shoe care tools. An oak hand..

Shoe care set with box
£97.50
Daubing brushes of beech and horsehair. These round daubers are for the application of polish to shoes or carved furniture, but also make ideal small ..

Wax or polish daubers
£9.00
A compact beech brass bristled suede cleaning brush. More traditional and less forgiving than our rubber alternative, this is none-the-less useful for..

Brass bristled suede brush
£4.50
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 ..

Objects of Use gift certificate
£10.00 - £100.00
A flat slab of delightfully scented almond oil soap, hand-made in Provence with Olive & Coconut Oil. Enriched with an additional dash of Sweet Alm..

Dish soap on a rope, France
£11.50
Eau de cologne from Laboratoires Cadentia of Aubagne, Provence — producers of authentic, traditionally blended, small batch perfumes since 1945. Inten..

Cadentia eau de cologne, Amber
£18.00
Eau de cologne from Laboratoires Cadentia of Aubagne, Provence — producers of authentic, traditionally blended, small batch perfumes since 1945. Inten..

Cadentia eau de cologne, Natural Citrus
£18.00
A natural, multipurpose white vinegar cleaning spray(700ml). An economical and ecological cleaning product and de-scaler for kitchen (worktops, applia..

White vinegar cleaning spray
£6.50
A small oiled beech and horsehair dustpan and brush set designed for sweeping crumbs from the table. The brush fits neatly inside the pan, in a manner..

Table dustpan and brush
£27.50
A narrow long reach brush for cleaning around and behind all kinds of cabinets and deep shelves. The rounded end helps prevent accidental knocks and d..

Furniture brush
£42.50
120cm, twisted, PVC sheathed, stainless steel wire, black goat hair, about 30cm of brush, 120cm total length. Very flexible shaft, for cleaning behind..

Radiator brush
£15.00
A double pronged radiator brush of 6cm pig bristle wound into twisted stainless steel wire, mounted to an oiled beech handle. Ideal for cleaning dust ..

Radiator brush, double
£20.00
A stitched dust-brush of polished waxed beech, white goat-hair and steel wire; finished with a brass pin secured back plate, and a white felt bumper w..

Dust-brush no.1
£30.00
A small brush for sensitive surfaces, niches, fine delicate items, and the careful focussed cleaning of more valuable artifacts. Very fine soft goat h..

Dust-brush no.3
£24.00
With a circular, almost hemispherical head of soft light goat-hair hand sewn into a waxed beech stock, supplied with an 80cm matching turned beech han..

Dust-brush no.5, high duster
£55.00
A black horsehair cobweb brush, 80cm handle in waxed beech. Traditionally shaped round brush, with a long reach, and two angle settings for the head. ..

Cobweb brush
£55.00
Pearwood, goathair and bristle, about 28cm in length, leather loop for hanging. A front section of strong bristles is for the removal of more stubborn..

Book brush
£27.50
Bath tub brush, common in Japan and on the continent, and used for cleaning baths quickly and without scratching, although we think it would make a pr..

Bathtub brush
£23.00
An umber brown and golden blond coconut fibre wound into stainless steel wire toilet brush ingeniously attached to a dark bamboo handle. Softer and de..

‘Tawashi’ toilet brush
£16.00
A black hog bristled dust brush set with 3 separately ferruled heads giving a less dense, therefore softer head whilst retaining the spring of stiffer..

3 ring dusting brush
£15.00
A thick cotton waffle weave cleaning cloth from Sweden. It quite large at approximately 50cm by 60cm, possibly too big for the dishes but is excellent..

Cleaning and floor cloth
£5.50
100% Irish linen kitchen towels in a naturally thicker and more textured huckaback weave, naturally coloured with blue/off-white stripes. Manufactured..

Irish linen huckaback weave tea towel
£17.50
Slightly off-white 100% linen tea towels manufactured by Thomas Ferguson in Banbridge, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Not quite as fine as the superior g..

Irish linen tea towel - Quick Dryer
£15.00
A 50% linen, 50% cotton mix commercial grade glass cloth, of a type commonly sold to restaurants and public houses, where it will provide years of ser..

Irish Linen Union Glass Cloth
£6.50
Extra fine crystal glass cloths manufactured in Banbridge, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, from 100% linen. Linen tends not to shed its fibres so is consi..

Superior Irish linen crystal glass cloth
£17.50
A blue and white checked, jacquard woven, 50% linen/cotton union blend kitchen towel with red banding to the long edge and hanging loops to either end..

Half-linen kitchen towel
£6.00
A round brass wire and untreated beech brush for cleaning barbecues, or cleaning rust off steel, etc. The domed handle allows a greater application of..

Barbecue brush
£6.50
Milk bottle brush, also ideal for thermos flasks, as a glass brush, or for general washing up. Despite the name these arent really suitable for the mo..

Milk-bottle brush
£7.00
A handmade brush for the gentle cleaning of fine glassware, made from oiled birch and light horse hair. From the Swedish and Estonian workshops of Iri..

Standing glass brush
£19.00
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from natural beech sections..

Natural stick brush, dark
£12.00
Hand made in Buckinghamshire by Geoffrey Fisher, using simple woodworking techniques to create individually unique brushes from natural beech sections..

Natural stick brush, light
£12.00
Handheld dust broom head for walls and ceilings, exceptionally soft goat hair, machine made wire frame fitted to an oiled beech stock. These brushes a..

Goat-hair dust broom
£30.00
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 r..

Cobweb broom
£30.00
A moderately stiff cobweb broom especially suited to external use. Made of near black arenga fibre harvested from Indonesian sugar palms, which is spr..

Half moon cobweb broom
£20.00
A hand stitched brush made of strong dark horse hair with a waxed beech stock. The 'Vienna' broom is ideal for use on wooden or hard floors, or as a c..

Horse hair Vienna broom
£75.00
A hand-sewn, shaped, and assembled dark horsehair broom with a waxed and dyed beech stock, and detachable softwood handle. The moderately soft fine br..

Horse-hair broom
£55.00
A beautiful low kick broom ideal for delicate parquet, hardwood, marble, or smooth stone floors. Made of exceptionally soft goat-hair hand sewn into a..

Goat-hair floor broom
£60.00
A Chinese made broom of whole and split bamboo, hand formed and tightly wire bound. A lightweight but stiff brush ideal for the quick and regular swee..

Bamboo outdoor broom
£35.00
A long handled broom of lacquered bamboo and broom-corn, a kind of sorghum grass traditionally planted on 5th June and harvested around the 20th Augus..

Gunma long floor broom
£115.00
Tosaka means crest and aptly describes the form into which the fine matted umber fibres of the broom-head have been bound, shuro fibres which when fur..

Tosaka broom
£105.00
Children's red painted steel dustpan with a brush made from untreated beechwood and horsehair. The brush measures 22cm in length, the dustpan 19.5..

Child's dustpan & brush
£15.00
A very well made heavyweight white vitreous enamel dust pan, which being heat and abrasion resistant is particularly suitable to use around a hearth. ..

Dustpan no.3
£20.00
A small simple and lightweight dustpan of galvanised steel fitted with a looped wire handle, all held together without use of welding, rivets, or fast..

Dustpan no.6 – Osaka
£10.00
Lata Pigan Swedish for 'Lazy Maid' - a long handled dust pan and brush, made from beech and horse hair, with a painted steel pan. In Sweden, there is ..

Dustpan no.8 - Lata Pigan
£48.00
A simple pressed steel painted dust shovel with a beech handle and leather hanging loop. Ideal as a hearth scoop - although only with cold ashes - or ..

Dustpan no.10, green
£14.00
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 g..

Flat black dustpan dustpan no.11
£16.00
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..

Hand broom no.2 - coconut and beech
£18.50
An oil treated beech, and Madagascar palm fibre handmade hand broom. Fairly soft for a vegetable fibre brush, and with a lovely wire stitch detail on ..

Hand broom no.2 - Madagascar
£17.00
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 t..

Hand broom no.4 - Dutch style
£9.00
The siiliharja – hedgehog - is a long bristled birch and union blend (bass and tampico) elegantly curved hand broom from Finland, where it might typic..

Hand broom no.6 - Siiliharja
£30.00
A hand-bound hand broom of broom-corn, a kind of sorghum traditionally planted on 5th June and harvested on the 20th August, or after about 75 days gr..

5 bundle Gunma hand broom
£42.50
An incredibly simple hand broom from Japan made from the finer tops of bamboo canes bound tightly together with wire. Similarly to our zatacon scrubbi..

Japanese bamboo hand broom
£7.00
A longer handled and larger headed hand broom made with a birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark hors..

Hand broom no.9, Finnish long-handled hand broom
£32.00
A interesting brush whose whimsical good looks belie its undoubted if specific usefulness. The stock is formed from boreal birch the shorter fibres ar..

Bench brush
£15.00
For the sweeping of snow from cars. Made from waxed beech and coconut fibers. Coconut does not absorb water and has long been used in the manufacture ..

Snow brush
£15.00
Approximately 18cm diameter 1.5 litre lidded vitreous enamel cooking and storage pots from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight var..

Ukrainian enamel cooking and storage pot, 18cm – with lid, black
£20.00
Approximately 18cm diameter 1.5 litre lidded vitreous enamel cooking and storage pots from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight var..

Ukrainian enamel cooking and storage pot, 18cm – with lid, dark-green
£20.00
Approximately 18cm diameter 1.5 litre lidded vitreous enamel cooking and storage pots from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight var..

Ukrainian enamel cooking and storage pot, 18cm – with lid, pistachio
£20.00
A round vegetable brush, made from birch filled with union blend, a mix of tampico from Mexico, and palmyra fibre from the same Indian palms as sago. ..

Vegetable brush no.1
£16.00
A Sri Lankan 'tawashi' style vegetable brush, made from coconut fibre twisted into thick wire and bound with coconut twine. With a hanging loop for st..

Tawashi vegetable brush
£3.60
750 grams of flaked pure vegetable oil soap for hand or machine washing of delicate fabrics, from Salon-de-Provence where they have been made using th..

Bag of Marseille soap flakes, 750g
£17.50
750 grams of flaked pure vegetable oil soap from Salon-de-Provence where they have been made using the Marseille method since 1900. Batch processed in..

Savon de Marseille flakes
£15.00
15 balls of approximately 20mm diameter cedar wood balls in a small drawstring bag. Ideal for hanging as is in a wardrobe or stashing loose in drawers..

Cedar balls in cotton bag
£4.80
A soft shoe polishing brush made from oiled beech and light horsehair. Best used after the shoes have been allowed to absorb the (sparingly applied) p..

Shoe brush, light horsehair
£21.00
An oiled oak brush with stiff coconut and tampico fibres, for the cleaning of dirt off shoes prior to polishing. The wooden point at the front is for ..

Shoe cleaning brush (shoe scrubber)
£10.00
An unbleached cotton cleaning cloth, ideally suited to polishing leather shoes, measuring  40 x 40cm. After brushing off any dirt and applying yo..

Shoe cleaning cloth
£2.80
An unusual beech handled natural crepe cleaning ‘brush’ for suede and nubuck. The folded rubber flaps or ‘bristles’ grip and help lift flattened suede..

Suede cleaning ‘brush’
£8.50