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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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 choice of four natural ostrich feather dusters from a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-Westfalia. Genuine o..

Feather dusters nos. 1 thro' 4
£17.50 – £33.50
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
£35.00
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
£14.00
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
£12.50
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
£23.00
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
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
£14.50
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
£27.00
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
£37.50
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
£37.50
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
£22.50
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
£21.00
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
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
£5.50
Natural unbleached linen scrim, hard wearing, lint free, the best material for polishing glass, also good as an all round cleaning cloth, polishing cl..

Linen scrim
£4.00
An open weave 95% linen dish cloth - the other 5% being cotton and making up the stripes and edging. The loose weave allows for faster drying meaning ..

Linen dish cloth
£4.00
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
Classic German patterned blue, green, grey, or red checked kitchen or waiter’s towels of 100% jacquard woven cotton. Hanging loops to either end. Slig..

Kitchen towels
£4.50
Indigo and white checked jacquard woven 50% linen/cotton union blend kitchen towels with red banding to the long edge and hanging loops to either end...

Half-linen kitchen towels
£5.00
Glass cloths manufactured in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, from 95% linen and 5% cotton (the stripe). Linen tends not to shed its fibers so is considered ..

Linen glass cloths
£7.50
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
£5.50
A pack of 2 knitted copper scourers. Gentle but hard-wearing, longer lasting than plastic equivalents and entirely recyclable...

Copper scourers
£5.00
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
£5.00
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
£5.00
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
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
£3.00
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
£3.50 – £9.50
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
£12.00
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
£2.00 – £4.50
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
£11.00
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 ..

Swedish scrubbing whisks
£7.50
Stiff looped, or medium stiff dense straight bound scrubbing whisks from Finland. The looped whisks are made from yellow rice root (the stripped and d..

Finnish scrubbing whisks
£5.00 – £7.50
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
£15.00
Stripped rattan in a traditional sun form. Not seen much these days, but still useful, particularly for woollen blankets, which can be too soft to vac..

Carpet beater no.1
£12.00
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
£11.00 – £20.00
From Japan where this heart shaped form is traditionally used for beating futons, but actually produced in Indonesia source of most of the World’s raw..

Carpet beater no.4, heart
£7.50
Handheld dust broom for walls and ceilings, exceptionally soft goat hair, machine made wire frame fitted to an oiled beech stock. Supplied without a h..

Goat-hair dust broom
£30.00
Handheld cobweb broom made of soft horse hair, on machine made wire frame; supplied without a handle but with a German threaded adaptor for standard w..

Cobweb broom
£27.50
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, o..

Horse hair Vienna broom
£55.00
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
£19.00
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
£48.00
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
£45.00
Swedish broom suitable for outdoor or indoor use, made from birch and palmyra fibre (bassine) from the same Indian palm as the 'delicious' sag..

Swedish broom
£21.00
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
£18.50
An outdoor sweeping broom traditionally called a talkkari – caretaker - in its native Finland. This has a simple but robust construction, with the coa..

Finnish caretaker's broom
£20.00
A 13” by 3.5

Yard or shippen broom
£23.50
A very rarely seen hand stitched yard broom or scrubber of bassine, a course and hardwearing Indian palm fibre, held with stainless steel wire in an o..

Stitched yard broom
£20.00
Rice straw broom. Rice straw not being derived from rice at all but from sorghum a type of cereal growing from the sub-tropics to the Balkans. Rice st..

Rice straw broom
£15.00
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
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
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
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
£55.00 – £85.00
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
£8.00 – £10.00
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
£14.00 – £16.00
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
£10.00
A strong black painted steel dustpan with a loop handle designed for single handed use. Handle aside these are cut and pressed from a single sheet and..

Dustpan no.1
£9.00
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
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
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
£18.50 – £30.00
A mid-sized black handled pleasantly lightweight dustpan of galvanised steel pressed, trimmed, finished and assembled largely by hand in a small works..

Dustpan no.5 – Tokyo
£9.00
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
£8.00
A wide-mouthed deeper sided three handled dustpan of a traditional Japanese design, enabling use (when combined with a mid-length or lightweight longe..

Dustpan no.7 – tall Osaka
£17.50
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 longer handled ‘automatic’ galvanised steel dustpan from a small metal workshop in Osaka, Japan, a company who have specialised in the largely hand ..

Dustpan no.9 – Japanese caretaker's
£45.00
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
£8.50
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 s..

Hearth brush, Luka Zajk
£25.00
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
£9.00
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
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
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
£8.00
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
£16.50
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
£18.00
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
£29.50 – £70.00
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
Small hand and mid-length brooms of a traditional type from a small craft workshop in Thailand. Sorghum is more commonly know as rice straw or even br..

Sorghum brooms
£12.00 – £25.00
A interesting brush whose whimsical good looks belie its undoubted if specific usefulness. The stock is formed from boreal birch, soaked in pine tar a..

Bench brush
£11.00
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
£10.00
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 'V' shaped scrubbing brush of oiled boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers coopera..

Scrubbing brush no.4 (Finnish tampico)
£11.50
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 – £17.50
A commercial grade Kentucky mop. This has a larger, longer, flatter head than the domestic mop, and can hold and transfer to the floor a far greater q..

Kentucky mop and bucket
£4.50 – £50.00
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 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
A Japanese 'tawashi' vegetable brush, made from coconut fiber twisted into thick wire and bound with coconut twine. With a hanging loop for st..

Tawashi vegetable brush
£3.00
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
£1.80 – £2.00
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 allowin..

Japanese cloth grips
£10.00
Founded in 1893 Rapide of Haaksbergen, Holland, have long specialized in the production of lubricants and leather care products. Almost solvent free, ..

Leather cream
£9.50
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
£12.50
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