Objects for use in the house, furniture, fittings, labour saving devices and chairs to sit upon whilst you wait
Objects for use in the house, furniture, fittings, labour saving devices and chairs to sit upon whilst you wait

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A box of 24 approximately 20mm scented incense cones for burning. Based upon recipes first developed by the chemist Hermann Zwetz in city of Schleiz o..

Box of mixed mini räucherkerzchen
£2.40
50cm scissor operated blackened steel fire-tongs ideal for wood-burning and solid fuel stoves as well as open fires. Hand produced in Catalonia at the..

Spanish fire-tongs
£12.00
A choice of 5 sizes of mouth blown house plant watering bulbs from small lamp workshops in Lauscha, Germany - the traditional home of glass Christmas ..

Blown glass watering bulbs
£3.60 - £6.00
A pair of soft goat-hair and pear-wood brushes mounted upon stainless steel tongs allowing for the easy and scratch free dusting of broad leaved house..

Leaf and vinyl brush
£35.00
Natural horn bowls in two sizes, small approximately 100mm in diameter, or large at about 160mm. Ranging from white, to translucent amber, through all..

Horn bowls
£25.50 – £36.00
Designed by Maija Isola of marimekko in 1960, but reputedly based upon a traditional bowl she had found and fallen in love with at what we now might c..

Mariskooli bowls
£20.00 – £49.00
Japanese display vases designed and hand fabricated by Daisuke Tsumanuma and Kenichi Yamada of glass, copper, lead came, and solder. Reminiscent of mu..

Terra hydroponic cases
£140.00
Three styles of vase (Shinogi, Heish, or Shimentori) designed by Oji Masanori in collaboration with Imamura Hajime of Imamura Porcelain based in Arita..

Jicon flower vases
£40.00
A black tenmoku glazed bud vase hand thrown at the Leach Pottery, St Ives. In 1920 Bernard Leach returned from 11 years in Japan to found (with Hamada..

Leach Standard Ware bud vase
£27.00
Simple four or seven peg hanging racks made of slow growing and sustainably sourced baltic birch in the workshops of Iris Hantverk, where in excess of..

Swedish hanging rack
£12.00 – £17.00
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. ..

Finnish rattan coat hanger
£12.00
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 Ha..

Towel dryer
£48.00 – £52.50
Hand poured sand-cast brass towel rails in two length from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture. Wit..

Brass ihada towel rails
£72.50 – £85.00
A booklet of the most ancient natural room deodoriser. 12 leaves and 36 strips. Tear off a strip, fold it into a zig-zagging concertina, set alight an..

Papier d'Arménie
£3.00 – £4.80
Boxes of 24 scented incense cones for burning. Based upon recipes first developed by the chemist Hermann Zwetz in city of Schleiz over 135 years ago a..

Räucherkerzen incense cones
£3.00
A small wooden ski chalet, typically found at German Christmas fairs and used at this time for decoration and the burning of räucherkerzchen incense c..

Wooden smoking house, incense burner
£17.50
Raw un-lacquered brass wall mounted soap holders of a type seen since the 1950s throughout France; in public buildings, cafes, restaurants, and campsi..

Porte savon
£8.70 – £34.00
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
£4.80
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
£2.50
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 simple two part draining soap dish from Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Made from hinoki, a type of slow growing cypress native to the central Japanese i..

Hinoki soap dish
£27.50
8" chrome plated, black lacquered handles, sidebent trimmers for flat working. Good for use as tailor's shears, or for card and paper - the k..

Left or right handed fabric and paper shears
£33.00 – £36.00
There is no doubt that folding scissors have acquired something of a bad reputation in recent years being found amidst the shoddy offerings of airport..

Folding scissors
£72.00
Eight or nine inch hot forged chrome plated carbon steel tailor's shears with black enamelled handles and large easy adjust bolts for tightening or di..

German tailor's shears
£42.00 - £50.00
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 8 inch elegant Catalan dressmaking scissors, with one pointed and one rounded ti..

Catalan dressmaking scissors, 8”
£24.00
A naturally coloured un-dyed wool traditional Caernarfon pattern Welsh tapestry blanket or carthen, woven in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire on a dobby ..

Welsh three colour natural tapestry blanket
£220.00 – £290.00
Hand-woven on a traditional Andean loom, these light, yet warm blankets are made using 100% locally sourced alpaca from herds that graze between 3,500..

Fairly traded Bolivian alpaca throws
£140.00
Our reindeer skins come from Sweden where the Sami have long kept them in semi-domesticated herds (much like our own mountain or moorland sheep) both ..

Reindeer hide
£145.00
Pairs of hand dipped unbleached natural beeswax candles from Cumbria, made of wax from mostly English, Scottish, and occasionally European and African..

Hand-dipped beeswax candles
£1.50 – £26.50
Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) renowned for their steady burning and even flame. Made of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwis..

Rice bran wax candles
£21.00
Non-lethal mouse trap. Predominantly copper wire and untreated softwood. Works like a lobster pot, and reports regarding its effectiveness are very go..

Mousetrap
£10.00
These mouth blown fly and wasp traps come from small lamp workshops in Lauscha, Germany the traditional home of glass christmas ornaments, and especia..

Blown glass fly trap
£10.00
5mm or 8mm copper tacks used in the production of shaker boxes and furniture. Made in Charlotte, Michigan on 19th century equipment. Round headed and..

Shaker nails
£13.50 – £16.00
Packs of 100 square sectioned, large headed, blued steel nails forged from cold drawn stock. Due to their irregularly surfaced four sided shafts (and ..

Forged nails
£7.50 – £13.50
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, alth..

Swedish key-rack
£39.50
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 an..

School hook 1040
£10.00
It was in 1937 that three Bohlin brothers opened the Skoglund Metallgjuteri foundry in Anderstorp, Sweden, with the progressive idea of making somethi..

Double hook 142
£6.25
Hand sand-cast solid brass hooks named after their subtle resemblance to a Japanese edible fern. From a foundry founded in 1897 in the Japanese city o..

Zenmai hooks
£22.00 – £30.00
Pairs of hand poured sand-cast solid brass shelf brackets from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture...

Brass ihada shelf brackets
£95.00 – £100.00
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 ..

Ekoxe bootjack
£28.50
An aluminium blow pipe with an oiled beechwood mouthpiece and handle and a leather hanging strap. Originating in the mountainous Massif Central region..

Bouffadou fire pipe
£29.50
A simple four legged short bench, made entirely by the hand of Iba Takahito in Biei City, close to Asahikawa amongst the forests and highlands of Hokk..

Ibazen long stool or bench
£850.00
Whilst at first glance this might be mistaken as some kind of perpetual motion machine it is in fact a kind of heat engine reliant on a carefully judg..

Lichtmühle, radiometer, or light-mill
£41.50
Clear or ruby glass baubles for hanging upon fir trees like petrified bubbles, and capturing no small share of their glistening evanescent beauty. The..

Mouth blown clear and coloured glass baubles
£7.25 – £11.50
Traditionally silvered glass baubles for hanging upon fir trees at Christmas time. Reminiscent of petrified bubbles, and capturing no small share of t..

Silver mouth blown glass baubles
£10.00
A ‘diving helmet’ variation on our clear glass 8cm baubles, these are perhaps a safer way to candle illuminate a Christmas tree than using the very tr..

Blown glass tea-light holders, set of 3
£15.00
Genuine stanniol (tinfoil) lametta tinsel from Eppstein in Germany. Originating as extruded silver strand in the early 1600's, lametta was by the ..

Eis-Lametta tinsel
£3.75
An elegantly translucent pendent shade and ceiling cup born of a collaboration between OJI Masanori and Imamura porcelain of Arita. Made of Amakusa To..

Hiraki chrysanthemum blooming pendant lamp
£285.00
An elegantly translucent pendent shade and ceiling cup born of a collaboration between OJI Masanori and Imamura porcelain of Arita. Made of Amakusa To..

Tsubomi chrysanthemum bud pendant lamp
£250.00
A range of i-hada and kuro-mura sand-cast brass pendent lamps from Japan. The i-hada castings are left 'in their skin', meaning their raw cast surface..

Ihada lamp hemisphere polished
£360.00
A range of i-hada and kuro-mura sand-cast brass pendent lamps from Japan. The i-hada castings are left 'in their skin', meaning their raw cast surface..

Ihada lamp Myojo (faceted), small
£335.00
A 100% 'European Masters of Linen’ linen, herringbone weave table runner, measuring 43cm x 150cm. A timeless classic, this Scandinavian blue and white..

Finnish linen herringbone table runner
£39.00
Hand thrown in smooth white stoneware for Objects of Use by Katie Coston of Ilyria Pottery, less than a mile from our store in Oxford, this bottle vas..

Oxford stoneware bottle vase
£42.00
Hand thrown in smooth white stoneware for Objects of Use by Katie Coston of Ilyria Pottery, less than a mile from our store in Oxford, this straight s..

Oxfordshire stoneware straight vase
£40.00
Slightly irregular hand formed in smooth white stoneware for Objects of Use by Katie Coston of Ilyria Pottery, less than a mile from our store in Oxfo..

Oxford stoneware incense dish
£9.50
A small hand crafted 11cm high wooden figure variously described as a goblin or an imp - typically found at German Christmas fairs and used at this ti..

Smoking imp for use with mini incense cones
£22.50
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
£12.50
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 hand-cast fine 'soft' concrete soap dish embossed with the (Swedish) braille symbols [⠎⠧⠡⠇] which is tvål, the Swedish f..

Braille soap dish
£26.00
A simple oval soap dish of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry to in th..

Japanese enamel soap dish
£14.00
6.5" dressmaking scissors of nickel plated steel. Forged, ground, and assembled in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 176..

Dressmaking scissors
£17.50
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Household scissors
£18.60
8" high carbon specially case hardened tool steel scissors developed for the cutting of carbon, kevlar, and glass fibre cloths - materials which ..

Composite materials scissors
£48.00
Hot forged 7” chrome plated, dipped handled, side-bent cutting out scissors, ideal for use on flat surfaces, or for the accurate cutting of thicker pa..

Cutting out scissors
£20.50
Uncommonly fine and clearly defined hot forged Solingen steel embroidery scissors cut and ground by the master grinders of Dovo Stahlwaren and finishe..

Stork embroidery scissors from Solingen
£32.50
Petits Monstres embroidery scissors - so called because the disproportion between handles and blades is thought to make them resemble precisely that. ..

Little monsters scissors
£47.50
7” large handled chrome plated carbon steel couturière, or dressmaker’s pattern cutting scissors made in small workshops in the town of Nogent in the ..

French couturière scissors
£55.00
Nickel-plated steel embroidery scissors from France in a classic rabbit pattern. Like the stork, the rabbit is an ancient symbol of fertility - think ..

Rabbit embroidery scissors
£22.50
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 5.5 inch Catalan sewing scissors, with one pointed and one rounded tip for detai..

Catalan sewing scissors, 5.5”
£16.50
A traditional checked travel and picnic blanket, woven at Elvet Woollen Mill in Carmarthenshire using British wool from the Shetlands and finished wit..

Llansteffan travel and picnic blanket
£72.00
A thick and warm carded blanket, woven in the region of El Alto, Bolivia in the Altiplano highlands, using locally sourced alpaca from herds that graz..

Blanket Cardada, 60% alpaca 40% wool blanket
£85.00
In Japan wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) are renowned for their long burning and even flame. Made of a hard fat, not entirely dissimilar to tallow, bu..

Sumac wax candles
£25.00
A burnished brass conical candle snuffer with a native or reclaimed hardwood handle, made in the metal workshops of of the Newton Dee Camphill communi..

Brass candle snuffer
£22.00
A small handbell made of gilding metal (≈Cu95/Zn5) in the metal workshops of the Newton Dee Camphill community in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Each bell p..

Gilding metal bell
£22.00
A very traditionally styled fly swat with a good sized thick punched leather head fixed to an oiled beech shaft. Unfortunately its effectiveness is st..

Leather fly swat
£12.00
A wooden handled fanned wire headed fly swat designed to give a little, killing but reducing the chance of crushing and therefore bursting its prey, l..

Wire fly swat
£9.00
A set of 3 oval Shaker boxes, handmade of cherry to the elegantly simple and surprisingly Modern 19th century designs. Lightweight and breathable but ..

Shaker boxes
£50.00
A fuki-urushi lacquered sakura cased clock, which mechanism aside, is made entirely by the hand of Iba Takahito in Biei City, close to Asahikawa among..

Ibazen clock
£390.00
A small fuki-urushi lacquered sakura (Japanese cherry) shelf with a shaped, concave surface ideal for holding pens, pencils, or other small roll prone..

Ibazen shelf or wall tray
£90.00
A simple four legged stool with a handle cut into the seat for easy carrying. Made entirely by the hand of Iba Takahito in Biei City, close to Asahika..

Ibazen stool
£650.00
White on clear glass baubles hot dipped into grains of red, yellow, gold, and a little violet or blue, then turned, twisted, and blown to create uniqu..

Limited edition winter bauble
£11.50
A battery night light made with a walnut base and Hokkaido fir shade, cut thin enough that the light shines gently through the grain. From the hand of..

Roly-poly lamp
£150.00