Archetypal objects of use in the office, in the study or library. Writing implements, study aids, tools for household repair, construction and fabrication
Archetypal objects of use in the office, in the study or library. Writing implements, study aids, tools for household repair, construction and fabrication

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A beautifully milled, black anodised aluminium bodied dip pen. Something of a return to Kaweco’s origins as the company was originally founded in 1883..

Kaweco dip pen
£36.00
Kaweco Sport aluminium pocket fountain pen. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Milled from solid aluminium blanks, laser engraved, and hand polished. Kaweco,..

Kaweco AL Sport, anthracite
£66.00
Kaweco Sport aluminium pocket fountain pen. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Milled from solid aluminium blanks, laser engraved, and hand polished. Kaweco,..

Kaweco AL Sport, silver satin
£66.00
An elegant mid-length octagonal retracting ballpoint pen, supplied with a 1mm blue Kaweco insert, these take standard G2 refills, ballpoint or rollerb..

Kaweco Special ballpoint pen, black
£46.50
An elegant mid-length octagonal retracting ballpoint pen, supplied with a 1mm blue Kaweco insert, these take standard G2 refills, ballpoint or rollerb..

Kaweco Special ballpoint, brass
£60.00
An elegant full length, black lacquered aluminium fountain pen supplied with a medium Kaweco nib - a genuine pleasure to write with, with an undoubted..

Kaweco Special Fountain pen – black
£85.00
An elegant full length fountain pen, in raw brass, supplied with a medium Kaweco nib — a genuine pleasure to write with, with an undoubted style ..

Kaweco Special Fountain pen, brass
£100.00
An elegant mid-length octagonal polished brass clutch pencil for 0.5mm graphite leads, fine enough for use as a writing or occasional sketching pencil..

Kaweco Special pencil, brass
£51.00
A standard-pattern iInk converter suitable for Kaweco's Special fountain pens. Allows you to use bottled ink with these pens instead of cartridges. Pl..

Kaweco standard converter for 'Special' fountain pens
£5.75
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B5, green
£15.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B5, red
£15.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B5, yellow
£15.00
A small, but perfecty formed, clipboard with a durable metal clip, which doubles as a handy wall-hanging device. The board is manufactured from smooth..

Penco clipboard, small
£9.00
A substantial A5 diary with page per day, for keeping all your day-to-day engagements in order. With cotton cloth-bound spines, elastic closure band, ..

Portuguese hand-bound diary, black
£25.00
A single refill for our Traveler's Company Brass Pocket Ball-pen...

Japanese ball-pen refill
£2.00
A ball-pen held within a brass case so eerily reminiscent of a firearms cartridge it is impossible not to imagine the production stamps haven’t been a..

Japanese ball-pen, brass
£32.50
A fine-nib fountain pen so reminiscent of a firearms cartridge it is impossible not to imagine the production stamps haven’t been adapted from this ve..

Japanese solid brass fountain pen
£75.00
A 15cm pure brass ruler with with one raised edge for easy pick up and to prevent under-bleeding when used with ink-pens. From a small, long establish..

Japanese brass ruler, 15cm
£17.00
Built to last a lifetime, of stainless steel with an ash handle. This is the perfect tool both for the careful scraping away accreted layers of earth,..

Archeologist’s trowel
£42.00
Made in Japan, using stiff, yet flexible card  produced at a mill that undertakes every aspect of its manufacture from pulping, to drying, and fi..

Midori notebook cover, A5
£13.00
Made in Japan, using stiff, yet flexible card  produced at a mill that undertakes every aspect of its manufacture from pulping, to drying, and fi..

Midori notebook cover, B6 slim
£12.00
Made in Japan using Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used extensively in-house as the medium ..

Midori notebook, B6 slim, ruled
£12.00
A neat wire-bound flip-top notepad from Midori of Japan, with a cover made using recycled leather made in Valencia, Spain, and an elasticated band to ..

Midori ring bound notepad
£7.50
A rather neat black anodised extruded and precision ground aluminium folding desk top rulers from Japan. Ideally sized at 15cm to fit easily into a pe..

Aluminium folding desk ruler, Black
£18.00
A rather neat black anodised extruded and precision ground aluminium folding desk top rulers from Japan. Ideally sized at 15cm to fit easily into a pe..

Aluminium folding desk ruler, Silver
£18.00
A folding pocket knife with a zinc alloy fish shaped handle and 420 stainless steel clip point blade hardened to 52-55 HRC. Manufactured almost unchan..

Bohemian Fishman's knife - Rybička
£12.00
A large ball of thicker 3 ply jute garden twine from the Nutscene company of Angus, Scotland and ideal for all jobs requiring a thicker, stronger cord..

Large ball of thick twine, black
£11.00
A traditional shaped beech wood darning mushroom, with comfortable turned handle, for providing a firm base upon which to carry out the darning of soc..

Darning mushroom, Beechwood, Germany
£4.75
A partially serrated carbon steel sickle knife, with a tape splitting hook to the back, a poplar handle, and a wire hanging loop. Incredibly sharp bot..

‘Resting Deer’ box opener or small pruning knife
£10.00
Individually handmade knives from a specialised and dedicated workshop at the New Eye Witness Works in Sheffield. Reinstating a long tradition, each k..

Lambfoot knife, rams-horn scales
£97.50
Individually handmade knives from a specialised and dedicated workshop at the New Eye Witness Works in Sheffield. Reinstating a long tradition, each k..

Twin blade Barlow knife, rams-horn scales
£130.00
Individually handmade knives from a specialised and dedicated workshop at the New Eye Witness Works in Sheffield. Reinstating a long tradition, each k..

Twin blade pen and lambfoot knife with mother of pearl scales
£255.00
With a curved back design dating to 1943, patented jam release mechanism - the front piece slides up and locks into place allowing easy access to the ..

Zenith 520 stapler
£1.20 – £37.50
With either with one end pointed and one rounded, or else both ends rounded. 178mm. Sterilised cow bone. Not a voodoo device for the folding of bones,..

Bone folders
£8.00
A cast pewter pistol grip handled letter opener with a straight stiletto shaped stainless steel blade for lasting relative sharpness and longevity. Ca..

Pewter pistol grip letter opener
£23.00
A choice of A5 or A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebooks with 100 of either ruled, plain, or 5mm graph pages, cotton cloth bound corners and spines..

Portuguese notebooks – Galocha
£12.50 - £19.50
An A5 handmade, quarter bound, 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 plain paper pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A5, blank, red, natural card
£19.50
An A5 quarter-bound, handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 10mm dot-grid pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured ..

Portuguese notebook, A5, dots, blue, natural card
£19.50
An A5 handmade, quarter bound, 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 ruled paper pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A5, ruled, black, natural card
£19.50
An A6 handmade, quarter bound, 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 plain paper pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A6, blank, red, natural card
£12.50
An A6, quarter-bound, handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 10mm dot-grid pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured..

Portuguese notebook, A6, dots, blue, natural card
£12.50
An A6 handmade, quarter bound, 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 ruled paper pages, cotton cloth bound spine, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A6, ruled, black, natural card
£12.50
Note or exercise books printed, stitch bound, and trimmed at a small workshop in Tokyo. Each consists of 30 pages of fine watermarked paper of a type ..

‘Foolscap’ notebooks, B5, B6, A7
£3.00 – £4.50
Kaweco first produced a Liliput fountain pen in 1910, originally in ebonite a kind of super vulcanised rubber and advertised as a safety pen for sport..

Kaweco Liliput fountain pen
£48.00 – £70.50
A small but strong gold-coloured clip designed to keep all your loose papers under control. Measuring 5 x 7.7cm, and made from steel, this is a useful..

Penco Clampy clip, gold
£4.50
A small but strong silver-coloured clip designed to keep all your loose papers under control. Measuring 5 x 7.7cm, and made from nickel-plated steel, ..

Penco Clampy clip, silver
£4.50
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in Black 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket f..

Kaweco fountain pen, Black
£21.00
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in Navy Blue 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pock..

Kaweco fountain pen, Navy
£21.00
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in Red. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fo..

Kaweco fountain pen, Red
£21.00
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in White. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket ..

Kaweco fountain pen, White
£21.00
Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fountain pens in 1912, and the origin of this particular design (the..

Kaweco Classic Sport Rollerball pen, Black
£18.50
Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fountain pens in 1912, and the origin of this particular design (the..

Kaweco Classic Sport Rollerball pen, Burgundy Red
£18.50
Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fountain pens in 1912, and the origin of this particular design (the..

Kaweco Classic Sport Rollerball pen, Green
£18.50
Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fountain pens in 1912, and the origin of this particular design (the..

Kaweco Classic Sport Rollerball pen, Navy
£18.50
Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket fountain pens in 1912, and the origin of this particular design (the..

Kaweco Classic Sport Rollerball pen, White
£18.50
The Kaweco Flap pen pouch is hand made from soft leather. Designed to hold 1 Kaweco Sport pen or pencil, it can be used with our without a pen clip. T..

Kaweco leather pouch with flap for 1 Sport pen
£33.00
The Kaweco Flap pen pouch is hand made from soft leather. Designed to hold 2 Kaweco Sport pens or pencils, it can be used with our without pen clips. ..

Kaweco leather pouch with flap for 2 Sport pens
£38.50
A box of 6 standard sized cartridges, in Highlighter Yellow, so you can use your fountain pen as a highlighter...

Kaweco cartridges, Highlighter Yellow
£2.10
8 sided clips for Kaweco sport pens, available either gold, or chrome plated. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began produci..

Kaweco clips
£2.40
Kaweco superior ink cartridges box of 6, pearl black, royal blue, midnight blue, palm green, ruby red, or caramel brown. Standard short international ..

Kaweco ink cartridges
£2.10
Water-based fountain pen and brush inks from Kyoto, Japan. Made with traditional recipes, materials, and techniques used since at least the Heian peri..

Kyo no oto Japanese ink
£20.00
Heavy bodied, black in the case of the Toison d’Or, or yellow for the Versatil, lacquered clutch pencils supplied with pocket clips and sharpeners sec..

Toison d’Or or Versatil clutch pencils
£2.25 – £5.00
A set of six mechanical coloured pencils with matching 2mm leads, and a natural rubber eraser in a tin box. The pencils are fitted with a small 'V' sh..

Koh-I-Noor drawing pencils
£2.25 – £30.00
Heavy aluminium bodied sketching pencils with brass and steel clutch mechanisms and chromed fittings. Supplied with a fine 2B graphite lead as standar..

Artist’s 5.6mm clutch pencils
£3.60 – £13.50
A thinner pencil with a mechanical advance and integral sharpener (inside the push button) for purses, pockets and small notebooks. During the Napoleo..

Notebook pencil
£0.90 – £10.20
A shorter, rubber covered, metal clutch pencil with a softer grip and sharpener secured inside the push button top. During the Napoleonic wars a conti..

Versatil 'soft' clutch pencil
£3.80 – £13.80
A pack of 10 replacement pink rubber erasers for Blackwing pencils. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a speci..

10 Blackwing erasers, pink
£4.00
A box of 12 Blackwing (flat black) pencils - the softest of the 3 standard Blackwing pencils. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the ..

12 Blackwing pencils
£30.00
A double ended pencil divided approximately equally into two halves of blue and red wax based coloured leads. First introduced in 1909 for use by the ..

Twin colour pencil
£1.20
A more environmentally friendly version of the ubiquitous highlighter pen made without so much single use plastic being instead a traditional wood cas..

Dry marker highlighter pencil, Pink
£1.20
A more environmentally friendly version of the ubiquitous highlighter pen made without so much single use plastic being instead a traditional wood cas..

Dry marker highlighter pencil, Yellow
£1.20
Kaweco piston converter for Kaweco Sport fountain pens. A miniature piston converter allowing the use of bottled inks with Kaweco's compact fountain p..

Kaweco Piston ink converter for 'Sport' fountain pens
£5.40
A pair of double ended carpenter’s pencils both made with a combination of 2B graphite and red or blue wax based coloured leads allowing for clear and..

Set of two carpenter’s pencils
£3.00
Specialist fabric marking chalk pencils produced for the company of La Manufacture Bohin, whose museum workshops in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy ..

Tailor’s pencils
£2.75
A choice of natural latex rubber erasers from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic. The uniquely patterned ’Magic’ erasers are slightly the hardest..

Magic eraser
£0.65
A choice of natural latex rubber erasers from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic. The uniquely patterned ’Magic’ erasers are slightly the hardest..

White Koh-i-Noor logo eraser
£1.00
A heavy brass double sharpener, with two parallel barrels, one of 8.2mm for standard pencils, another of 11.2mm for thicker crayons and eyeliners. A w..

Brass Wedge double sharpener
£5.25
An unexpectedly but pleasingly heavy brass pen case from a small and well established metal pressing workshop located in downtown Tokyo. Left raw, tha..

Japanese brass pencil case
£50.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass stationery trays in three sizes from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefectur..

Ihada stationery trays
£45.00 – £65.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass tin lined weighted tool holders or desk tidies from a foundry founded in 1897 in the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture. W..

Ihada tool holders
£200.00 – £250.00
Deep green and white marbled desk trays of thermosetting melamine resin, made in Thailand for Hightide of Japan. In three sizes, a long narrow pen tra..

Melamine desk trays
£14.00 – £18.00
Hand poured sand-cast, and foot-pads aside (or in the case of the smaller springs also), entirely brass tape dispenser from a foundry founded in 1897 ..

Ihada tape dispensers
£195.00 – £200.00
Hand poured sand-cast brass paper weights from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture. With minimal ch..

Ihada paper weights
£50.00 – £55.00
Desk-top or wall mounted tape dispensers with bodies made of a single piece of folded and enamelled sheet steel, with hardened cutting blades, and one..

Enamelled steel tape dispensers
£24.00 – £34.50
Beautifully machined colour anodised aluminium metric triangular drafting or architects scales from Japan. With metre scales in 1:100 which doubles as..

Japanese drafting scales
£13.50
Nickel plated, black lacquered offset handled professional pinking shears with extra deep, variably raked teeth for a satisfyingly crisp pinked cut. P..

Pallarès pinking shears, 7”
£39.00
Classic English joiners marking knives, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pe..

Left or right handed marking knives
£6.50
Wood carving knives from Morakniv of Sweden made to the classic Erik Frost 106, 120, 162, or 163 patterns. The 106 has an 82mm tapering blade of lamin..

Mora ‘Erik Frost’ wood carving knives
£22.50 – £37.50
A French made hornbeam tape measure modelled on an ancient and classic design. The tape is of a specially manufactured 1 metre cotton jacquard ribbon,..

Hornbeam tape measure
£18.50
Packets of 20 sharps and darners or, 40 sharps and milliners, general purpose sewing needles still made using the original machines at the museum fact..

French needles
£4.70 – £6.00
Boxes of black, white, or coloured glass headed pins from the museum factory of La Manufacture Bohin in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy - since 1952..

French glass headed pins, 20 grams
£9.50
A box of 200 no.4 extra-fine hardened and tempered ‘Couturex’ professional quality pins, smooth and properly tapered for use without snagging on fine ..

200 French extra-fine pins
£3.00
Packs of 24 all brass, coil sprung, safety pins of either 19mm or 23mm in length. Being especially fine and sharp these are particularly recommended f..

French brass safety pins
£2.30 – £2.50
Packs of 12 safety pins of either 36mm or 44mm length, made in the classic 'French' style, that is without a coil, but with the addition at the elbow ..

French ball sprung safety pins
£3.50 - £4.00
Tangle-free capsules containing 50m of linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France the thread is lightly waxed for easier sewing. Be..

Fil au Chinoise linen thread
£7.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to improve..

No.80 cotton sewing thread
£2.50
60 metre balls of bi-coloured 2 ply jute twine in either a red/blond or blue/blond mix. Whilst as weather resistant as more traditional jute garden tw..

Bi-coloured jute twine
£3.00
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 for..

Japanese hammer – genno
£42.00
A general purpose double sided Japanese carpentry saw with a 240mm blade. The two sides have different purposes, the finer toothed side is for cutting..

Japanese ryoba saw
£39.00
A double sided file of a type typically used for sharpening ryoba saws. These can only be used on traditional oil quenched steel blades and not those ..

Japanese no.4 feather file for ryoba saws
£18.00
A narrow rectangular headed lighter weight Japanese Oak carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Na..

Kakugi mallet
£19.00
A general purpose carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With a beech head impregnated with wax f..

Katate Kakeya, Japanese beech and oak mallet
£22.50
Oval beech handled screwdrivers with precision ground tempered steel blades for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffiel..

Cabinet screwdrivers, flathead
£17.50 – £28.00
Oval beech handled screwdrivers with precision ground tempered steel blades for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffiel..

Cabinet screwdrivers, pozi-head
£14.00 – £15.50
6 or 9 inch spirit levels made of sustainably harvested walnut rather than the now protected and increasingly rare rosewood. With upper brass plates, ..

Joseph Marples walnut spirit levels
£24.00 – £35.00
With machined brass faced sustainably forested walnut stocks riveted to tempered blued steel blades, these squares are manufactured to exceed BS3322, ..

6 or 9 inch squares
£17.50 - £22.50
A 7½″ thumbscrew sliding bevel of sustainably forested walnut, blue tempered steel, and brass. For the measuring, marking, and transfer o..

Sliding bevel
£19.50
An adaptable marking gauge made of beech with the advantage of a partially brass fronted headstock. With spurs either side of the beam, a single pin f..

Combination marking and mortise gauge
£20.00
A traditional brass wedged, steel bladed cutting gauge made of sustainably forested walnut with a half round stem and stock, brass plates to hold off ..

Walnut cutting gauge
£26.50
A fully adjustable pad saw for cutting in tight, blind, or enclosed spaces, the blade being retraced to reduce flex or for when movement is restricted..

Joseph Marples pad saw
£20.50
Unchanged in recipe, design, or packaging since its launch in 1927, Coccoina contains in its aluminium tin a separate compartment holding a small brus..

Coccoina paste glue
£4.00
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 ..

Japanese Moku folding saw
£24.00
6.5" Bright carbon steel, traditional cockade design barber's scissors. Forged and ground in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scisso..

Barber's scissors (cockade)
£29.00
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hud..

The Thunderer
£9.00
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

Police whistle
£12.00
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibratin..

Siren whistle
£40.00
The original Admiralty Boatswain’s pipe or call (it should never called a whistle) made to an Acme design of 1870, and still used by navies worldwide ..

Boatswain's pipe
£26.50
A nickle silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a ..

Shepherd's whistle
£5.00
4.5 inch chrome plated hot forged carbon steel sprung looped threadclips. Designed to hang from the finger whilst sewing allowing for regular and easy..

Threadclips
£26.00
Made in Osaka, Japan from coated steel, this classic toolbox measures 10.5cm at its deepest, below the apex of the lid, 15cm wide and 35cm long. Perfe..

Japanese Y-350 tool box, grey
£36.00
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
A set of 8 paper-lined envelopes. Containing 20% cotton fibres, the naturally cream paper is of archival quality. It is ink friendly, bleed resistant,..

Japanese cotton paper envelopes x8
£6.60
50 sheets of softly ruled letter-writing paper mounted into an easy tear glue bound pad. Containing 20% cottonfibres, the naturally cream paper is of ..

Japanese cotton paper letter pad
£8.70
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Household scissors
£32.00
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
£46.00 – £51.00
Chrome plated, black lacquered handles, sidebent for flat working available in 10

Tailor's shears or flat cut scissors
£65.00 – £86.50
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
£69.50
Double curve silver-plated embroidery scissors with small, fine, and easy-to-manage blades that allow you to cut threads precisely. Particularly pract..

French embroidery scissors 'double curved'
£30.00
Fine tipped French embroidery scissors with gold plated and larger handle loops ideal for those with larger hands, or who prefer to hold the scissors ..

French large-handled embroidery scissors
£25.00
French embroidery scissors in a classic stork pattern and with gold-plated neck, body, and handles. It’s believed that the stork design had its origin..

French stork embroidery scissors
£24.00
These elegantly simple embroidery scissors have small, thin and easy-to-handle blades, to allow you to cut threads precisely. Specially designed for l..

Left-handed French embroidery scissors
£24.75
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
£25.50
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
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
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
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
Kaweco Sport aluminium pocket fountain pen. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Milled from solid aluminium blanks, laser engraved, and hand polished. Kaweco,..

Kaweco AL Sport, raw silver
£66.00
A Kaweco Sport pocket rollerball pen milled from a solid brass blank, laser engraved, and hand finished. This brass version is weightier than our alum..

Kaweco Rollerball pen, Brass
£70.00
An elegant mid-length octagonal black lacquered aluminium clutch pencil for 0.5mm graphite leads, fine enough for use as a writing or occasi..

Kaweco Special pencil, black
£42.50
Kaweco Sport pocket fountain pen milled from solid aluminium or brass blanks, laser engraved, and hand finished. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Feder..

Kaweco Sport Fountain pen, brass
£72.00
A vial of 12 HB graphite leads for the Kaweco ‘Special’ propelling pencil. Approximately 60mm long...

Kaweco graphite leads, 0.5mm, HB – for 'Special' pencil
£5.70
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B5, blue
£15.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B6, blue
£10.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B6, green
£10.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B6, red
£10.00
A soft covered pocket notebook from Japan. Made with typically smooth, bleed resistant Japanese paper, line printed in blue/grey, and stitch bound wit..

Japanese softcover notebook, B6, yellow
£10.00
A folding beech wood book stand ideal for use with cookbooks, music books, or for place holding academic texts for reference whilst writing - in fact ..

Book stand
£35.00
A simple, classic, clipboard with a durable metal clip, which doubles as a handy wall-hanging device. The board is manufactured from smooth, recycled ..

Penco clipboard, A4
£10.50
A substantial A5 diary with page per day, for keeping all your day-to-day engagements in order. With cotton cloth-bound spines, elastic closure band, ..

Portuguese hand-bound diary, yellow
£25.00
A beautifully smooth Japanese paper notebook, printed and stitched in sections, before being tape bound and trimmed at a small workshop in Tokyo. Each..

Tsubame notebook, B5
£10.00
A smooth rollerball pen so reminiscent of a firearms cartridge it is impossible not to imagine the production stamps haven’t been adapted from this ve..

Japanese solid brass rollerball pen
£75.00
Great for for keeping your tools clean and rust free. Cold pressed oil from the seeds of Camellia oleifera (same family as Camellia and tea) is the tr..

Camellia oil 100ml
£7.50
A plain paper A5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Japan..

A5 Noble notebook, plain
£15.00
Believed to have developed in seventeenth century Sheffield as an affordable but strong outdoors-mans pocket knife, the barlow is typified by its long..

Barlow knife
£24.50
A classic lazy serpentine field knife thought to originate amongst the shepherds of Ettrick parish in the Scottish Borders. It has a large reverse cur..

Ettrick pattern pruning and utility knife
£24.50
A tough utility knife with a straight edge, similar to a lambfoot, but as it’s name might suggest with a deeper more square ended blade and which evol..

Farmer's sheepfoot knife
£24.00
A strong pruning knife with a deep and curved carbon steel blade, brass linings, and walnut scales. The handle is also lightly curved for a comfortabl..

Pruning knife, 4 inch
£24.50
A strong pruning knife with a carbon steel blade, brass linings, walnut scales and a protective end cap. The handle is curved for a comfortable revers..

Sway back heavy pruning knife
£32.50
Although not the worlds first staple puller, since its design by Giorgio Balma in 1858 the Zenith 580 has become recognised as the standard by which a..

Zenith 580 staple puller
£8.00
A lightly sharpened natural ox-horn letter opener made from the horns of Nigerian long horned fulani cattle and hand cut, shaped, and polished to an a..

Oxhorn letter opener
£21.00
Heirloom quality dishwasher-safe versions of this very traditional English cream handled cutlery style, still being made in Sheffield - home since 163..

Cream handled Sheffield letter opener
£18.50
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in Burgundy Red 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing p..

Kaweco fountain pen, Burgundy Red
£21.00
The Kaweco Sport fountain pen in Green. 105mm closed, 133mm in use. Kaweco, founded as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik in 1883, began producing pocket ..

Kaweco fountain pen, Green
£21.00
A shaped leather case for two Kaweco sport fountain pens or pencils. Squeeze to open, protects the pens whilst loose in a pocket or handbag, with a lo..

Kaweco leather case
£17.50
A pack of 10 replacement white rubber erasers for Blackwing pencils. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a spec..

10 Blackwing erasers, white
£4.00
A box of 12 Blackwing 602 (silver-grey) pencils - the hardest of the 3 standard Blackwing pencils, although also the most similar to the original. Ori..

12 Blackwing 602 pencils
£30.00
A box of 12 Blackwing Natural pencils - the medium hard. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a specially develo..

12 Blackwing Natural pencils
£30.00
A box of 12 Blackwing Pearl (white) pencils - the medium hard. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a specially ..

12 Blackwing Pearl pencils
£30.00
The Round Double sharpener, a heavy circular brass sharpener with two overlapping barrels, one with a diameter of 8.2mm for standard pencils, one a di..

Brass double sharpener, Circular
£6.65
The Granade sharpener, a small barrel, or grenade, shaped knurled brass precision sharpener - small but pleasantly heavy in the hand and with a drille..

Granade sharpener
£4.10
150mm black burnished forged carbon steel sprung pencil grip compasses, with tempered hardened points, bichromate screws, brass fittings, and a unique..

Compass
£35.00
200mm black burnished carbon steel sprung dividers, with tempered hardened points, bichromate screws, brass fittings, and a unique 2 part quick releas..

Dividers
£30.00
Nickel plated, black lacquered offset handled professional pinking shears with extra deep, variably raked teeth for a satisfyingly crisp pinked cut. P..

Pinking shears
£42.50
Hand forged, ground, and paired desk scissors from Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands of the southern coast of Kyushu, and renowned for almost five..

Japanese desk scissors
£79.00
Small Japanese scissors wrapped in red and white silk cord. The scissors are forged from a single billet, the blades and centre being beaten flat at r..

Small nigiri-basami
£18.00
A single right beveled Japanese craftsman's knife made with flexible malleable iron forged to a water quenched fully hardened high carbon steel edge, ..

Yokote – YoshiTakahisa
£26.50
A double sided portable whetstone for use on axes and other straight or convex garden and outdoor tools. Always used with water the stone has a coarse..

Double sided axe stone
£42.50
The classic Maison Sajou model Nᴼ1 Boîte à Couture, comprising of embroidery scissors, nickel plated thimble, blue ribbon measuring tape, seam ripper,..

Sewing box
£65.00
A traditional dressmaker’s thimble of gold plated brass. Cast, chased, and plated in France and of a type intended for hard and continuous use by the ..

Dressmaker's thimble
£13.50
Individually hand-forged (and therefore quite variable) small striking hammers from Japan, fitted with smooth, shaped, untreated white oak handles pyr..

Japanese hammer no.3 (kodzuchi)
£80.00
At the turn of the 20th century the city of Sheffield was littered with an abundance of small scale tool manufacturers - the little mesters. Today ver..

Carpenter’s mallet
£16.00
A set of 7 auger gimlets made in France of blackened tempered steel wire. 2mm to 5mm diameters in 0.5mm gradients. A type of hand drill especially use..

Gimlet set
£13.00
A beautiful and practical folding knife, with a plywood handle and a single bevelled blade of laminated Aogami #2 Blue Paper steel. Perfect for arts, ..

Japanese Moku folding knife
£49.00
A thick black olive based soap with added ground olive kernel scrub. Produced using traditional processing methods, simmered and concentrated for long..

Marseille soap scrub with olive kernals, 1l
£15.00
Rough finished* yet surprisingly delicate hand forged household and hairdressing scissors from Vietnam. Made of carbon steel, with dipped handles for ..

Vietnamese hair & household scissors
£13.50
A hand-forged gardener’s knife from the Zakuri blacksmith’s cooperative of Tosa, Japan. Left still baring witness to the blows of its forging the blad..

Japanese hand-forged grafting and harvesting knife
£60.00
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..

Handmade fish peg
£2.40
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
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
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
Rough finished yet surprisingly effective hand forged tailors’ shears from Uttar Pradesh, India. Made of carbon steel brazed to cast and chased brass ..

Indian tailor's shears
£18.00
A traditional gentleman’s folded money clip of folded and polished brass. Smaller and significantly less bulky than wallets these never-the-less help ..

Brass money clip
£10.00