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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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
£69.00
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
£69.00
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
£69.00
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 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 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
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
£54.00
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
£83.00
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 'Special' fountain pen converter
£5.75
A vial of 12 HB graphite leads for the Kaweco ‘Special’ propelling pencil. Approximately 60mm long...

Kaweco 'Special' pencil leads, 0.5mm, HB
£5.70
A6 paperbacked stitched and glued spine diary arranged with a week to a view, with both yearly and monthly planners to the front. Supplied with a clea..

Les Agenda de l'Année 2023 pink
£20.00
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 classic Spanish ‘goat-legged’ folding pocket knife with pointed, leaf shaped blade in carbon (rustable) steel. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería..

Pallares Busa folding knife, rosewood, carbon
£48.00
A classic Spanish ‘goat-legged’ folding pocket knife with pointed, leaf shaped blade in high carbon stainless steel, for an easy-care pocket knife whi..

Pallares Busa folding knife, rosewood, stainless
£48.00
A rustic, easy care Spanish folding pocket knife with a yatagan style blade in high carbon stainless steel, and a handle cast in resin, for ..

Pallares Ripolles folding knife, resin, stainless
£14.50
A squared paper B5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Jap..

B5 Noble notebook, graph (red)
£20.00
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 recycled wood clipboard, small
£9.00
A single refill for our Traveler's Company Brass Pocket Ball-pen...

Japanese pocket ball-pen refill
£2.00
A little box containing 3 replacement pencils and two replacement erasers for the Japanese brass pocket pencil, so that you can restore your pencil to..

Japanese pocket pencil refill pack
£6.00
A pocket pencil held within a brass case, from a small and long established workshop in downtown Tokyo, where each piece undergoes at least 10 separat..

Japanese pocket pencil, brass
£30.00
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
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..

Niwaki Japanese Camellia oil 100ml
£7.50
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 ..

MD Notebook Diary 2023, A5
£19.00
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 ..

MD Notebook Diary 2023, B6 slim
£16.00
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 of Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used extensively in-house as the medium of ..

Midori notebook, A5, ruled
£14.00
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 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 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 beech wood darning egg, with a smooth polished surface, ideal for darning holes in socks, jumpers and delicate items. The egg holds the ..

Darning egg, wood, France
£7.50
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
Traditional Japanese scissors, only 105mm long. The scissors are forged from a single billet, the blades and centre being beaten flat at right angles,..

Nigiribasami mini snips, 105mm, Niwaki
£32.00
A superior envelope constructed of high quality natural kraft paper with a riveted string closure, enabling re-use. Use for desk storage, keeping spec..

Kraft Envelopes, Traveler's Company
£8.00
Believed to have developed in seventeenth century Sheffield as an affordable but strong outdoors-mans pocket knife, the barlow is typified by its long..

Arthur Wright & Son Barlow knife
£32.00
A classic lazy serpentine Ettrick pattern pruning and utility knife, thought to originate amongst the shepherds of Ettrick parish in the Scottish Bord..

Arthur Wright & Son Ettrick knife
£32.00
A Farmer's sheepfoot utility knife with a straight edge, similar to a lambfoot, but as it’s name might suggest with a deeper more square ended blade a..

Arthur Wright & Son Farmer's sheepfoot knife
£32.00
A pocket pruning and fruit knife with a small carbon steel pruning blade, brass linings, and nickel bolsters. The pruning blade is ideally suited to c..

Arthur Wright & Son Peach pruner
£32.00
A 4 inch strong pruning knife with a deep and curved carbon steel blade, brass linings, and walnut scales. The handle is also lightly curved for a com..

Arthur Wright & Son Pruning knife
£36.00
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..

Arthur Wright & Son Sway back pruner
£36.00
Made in Sheffield by Joseph Rodgers, this British Army Knife is a simple and robust folding knife with a non-locking blade made from high-carbon stain..

British Army Knife, non-locking blade
£36.00
Opinel's classic No.8 folding knife, with safety ring to lock the blade in place once opened. With a beech handle, and slightly clipped Sandvik 12C27 ..

Opinel no.08 locking knife, stainless steel
£13.50
Opinel's  black edition of the iconic No.8 folding knife, with safety ring to lock the blade in place once opened, and slightly clipped Sandvik 1..

Opinel No.8 Black Oak knife
£42.50
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 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 ..

Classic Italian 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,..

Hand-made bone folder, pointed
£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..

Hand made ox-horn letter opener
£25.00
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
£31.50
Made in Japan by Penco, using cedar wood to form the body and a metal tip and push mechanism, this premium pencil looks and feels lovely to use. A sha..

Penco Prime Timber pencil
£15.00
An A5 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 5mm graph pages, blue cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A5, dots, blue
£19.50
An A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 5mm graph pages, blue cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured p..

Portuguese notebook, A6, dots, blue
£12.50
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 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
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 ..

Japanese 'foolscap' Notebook A7
£3.00
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 ..

Japanese 'foolscap' notebook B5
£4.50
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 ..

Japanese 'foolscap' Notebook B6
£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 – £74.50
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 steel 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 steel clip, silver
£4.50
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
£22.00
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
£22.00
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
£19.50
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
£19.50
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
£19.50
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
£19.50
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
£19.50
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
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, pack of six
£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 metal clip for sport pens
£2.40
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 fountain pen & brush ink
£20.00
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 for 2 Sport pens
£17.50
A wood-clad hexagonal pencil in HB, in Koh-I-Noor’s black, white and gold livery. During the Napoleonic wars a shortage of high quality Cumbrian graph..

Koh-I-Noor graphite pencil, Toison D’Or, HB
£1.50
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
A pack of 6 assorted chalk, compressed charcoal, and graphite leads for the Koh-i-Noor artists clutch pencils. 5.6mm diameter, by 120mm length...

5.6mm 'magic' leads for artist's clutch pencil
£5.10
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 mechanical clutch pencil, 'magic'
£13.50
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 mechanical clutch pencil, silver
£13.50
A Versatile clutch pencil from Koh-I-Noor with steel clutch mechanisms and chromed fittings, and a shaft milled from wood, for a pencil which feels so..

Wooden shaft mechanical clutch pencil
£8.50
A thinner pencil with a mechanical advance and integral sharpener (inside the push button) for purses, pockets and small notebooks. During the Napoleo..

Koh-i-Noor notebook pencil
£10.20
A pack of 4 replacement HB leads for the Koh-i-Noor notebook pencil - a thinner pencil with a mechanical advance and integral sharpener (inside the pu..

Notebook Pencil refill 4 HB leads, 2mm x 60mm
£0.90
A stubby black and silver metal clutch pencil with a indents along the barrel for a comfortable grip and an integral sharpener secured inside the push..

Koh-i-Noor Versatil clutch pencil, 5.6, black
£16.00
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-touch clutch pencil
£3.80 – £13.80
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..

Blackwing 602 pencils, box of 12
£30.00
A pack of 10 replacement pink rubber erasers for Blackwing pencils. Originally developed by Eberhard Faber in the 1930s the Blackwing featured a speci..

Blackwing erasers, pink, pack of 10
£4.50
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 ..

Blackwing Matte pencils, box of 12
£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 ..

Blackwing Pearl pencils, box of 12
£30.00
Blackwing's Long Point Two-Step Pencil Sharpener is designed to create a long, sharp point using a two-step process. The first hole is designed t..

Blackwing Two-Step Long Point sharpener
£15.00
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 ..

German Post Office 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
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
£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 ..

Bohin French tailor’s chalk 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, natural latex rubber and pumice
£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
The Granade sharpener, a small barrel, or grenade, shaped knurled brass precision sharpener - small but pleasantly heavy in the hand and with a drille..

Brass Granade pencil sharpener
£4.25
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
£5.75
A hand-forged, carbon steel pencil sharpener in a magnolia casing. This blade is ideal for sharpening pencils, but is also an all-purpose blade usable..

Yoshihide pencil sharpener, left handed
£69.00
A freestanding gusseted pencil case from Japanese MD paper company, made using robust, raw Kurashiki canvas, this pencil case comes from the 'wab..

MD Kurashiki canvas pencil case
£39.00
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 sand-cast stationery trays
£45.00 – £65.00
A medium desk tray (23.5cm by 16cm), perfect for larger sets of pencils, coloured pens, or small notes of deep green and white marbled desk trays of t..

Melamine desk tray, medium
£18.00
A long narrow pen tray (about 23cm by 7.5cm) of deep green and white marbled desk trays of thermosetting melamine resin, made in Thailand for Hightide..

Melamine pen & pencil tray
£15.00
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
A hand sand-cast brass paper weight from a foundry established in 1897 in the Japanese city of Takaoka in the Toyama Prefecture. With minimal chasing,..

Ihada paper weight, Rhombus
£60.00
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
A desk-top or wall mounted tape dispenser with a body made of a single piece of folded and enamelled sheet steel, with hardened cutting blades, and on..

Penco tape dispenser, small, ivory
£25.00
Beautifully machined colour anodised aluminium metric triangular drafting or architects scales from Japan. With metre scales in 1:100 which doubles as..

Japanese anodised aluminium 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 nickel plated pinking shears, 7”
£39.00
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 hand-forged desk scissors
£79.00
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 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 with leather case
£49.00
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
£32.50
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
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..

Assorted French sewing needles
£4.70 – £6.00
A box of  coloured glass headed pins from the museum factory of La Manufacture Bohin in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy — since 1952 the only n..

Glass headed pins, Assorted colours
£9.50
A box of black glass headed pins from the museum factory of La Manufacture Bohin in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy - since 1952 the only needle mak..

Glass headed pins, Black (20g or about 175)
£9.50
A box of white glass headed pins from the museum factory of La Manufacture Bohin in Saint Sulpice sur Risle, Normandy — since 1952 the only needle mak..

Glass headed pins, White (20g or about 200)
£9.50
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 coil sprung 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
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of Franch Navy linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for eas..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule French navy
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of black linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easier se..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, black
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of Gabardine linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easie..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, gabardine
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of Grey linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easier sew..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, grey
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of Ochre linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easier se..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, ochre
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of Red linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easier sewi..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, red
£7.50
A tangle-free capsule containing 50m of White linen thread for hand needlework. Produced in northern France, the thread is lightly waxed for easier se..

Fil au Chinoise linen capsule, white
£7.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in black. Mercerised cotton is specially treated t..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, black
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in blue. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, blue
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in ecru. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, ecru
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in green. Mercerised cotton is specially treated t..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, green
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in grey. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, grey
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in red. Mercerised cotton is specially treated to ..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, red
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in white. Mercerised cotton is specially treated t..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, white
£2.50
5 gram cocoons of approximately 110 metres of French made mercerised three ply cotton sewing thread in yellow. Mercerised cotton is specially treated ..

No.80 cotton sewing thread, yellow
£2.50
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
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..

Joseph Marples Carpenter’s mallet
£16.00
A round carpenters Japanese maple mallet, from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture,Japan. Used for light chiselling work and close a..

Japanese maple mallet, 48 mm
£15.00
A narrow rectangular headed lighter weight Japanese Oak carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Na..

Japanese oak Kakugi mallet
£19.00
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, 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, ..

Joseph Marples 6" walnut square
£17.50
With machined brass faced sustainably forested walnut stocks riveted to tempered blued steel blades, these squares are manufactured to exceed BS3322, ..

Joseph Marples 9" try & mitre square
£22.50
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 ..

Joseph Marples 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 beech-handled 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 Italian paste glue
£4.00
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
£59.00
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
£28.00
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 kernels, 1l
£16.50
6.5" Bright carbon steel, traditional cockade design barber's scissors. Forged and ground in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scisso..

William Whiteley & Sons Barber's scissors
£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, or Official referee whistle
£9.00
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

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

Nickel plated 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 ..

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

Traditional English Shepherd's whistle
£5.00
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
A classic Spanish 'goat-legged' pocket knife with a pointed, leaf shaped blade of stainless steel. With matching stainless linings and spring set with..

Pallarès Busa folding knife, polished antler handle
£75.00
An elegant set of 8 paper-lined cards, for beautiful notes to friends and acquaintances. Containing 20% cotton fibres, the naturally cream card is of ..

Japanese cotton paper-lined cards x8
£11.50
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 aluminium cloth grips
£13.50
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W Whiteley 8" tailors shears, Left handed
£51.00
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..

William Whitely & Sons 8" tailors shears
£46.00
Made in France, a folding pack of 40 needles to cover most general sewing requirements, with a Toile de Jouy motif on the exterior and Plaisirs de la ..

40 assorted French sewing and embroidery needles, Toile de Jouy booklet
£17.00
Assortment of 15 sharp sewing needles from N°3 to N°9 in a card booklet printed with a red Offrande à l’Amour toile de Jouy motif. Traditionally mount..

Assorted French sewing needles, Toile de Jouy
£6.00
A pair of small and precise, yet strong nickel-plated workshop scissors, made in France, with pointed blades which can be used for all those jobs wher..

Censy 'workshop' sewing scissors
£32.50
Made in France, a small round metal tin containing roughly 120 fine n°5 (1/4

Eiffel Tower tin of no.5 dressmaker pins
£9.50
Entirely made in France, this pretty sewing set contains all the essentials for your sewing needs in a box with internal tray printed all over with th..

French Toile de Jouy sewing set
£72.00
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
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
French-made, beautifully finished embroidery scissors in a classic stork pattern and with gold-plated neck, body, and handles. It’s believed that the ..

Sajou French stork embroidery scissors
£29.50
Made from blue Toile de Jouy with a bordeaux bias, this case is perfect for holding your favourite embroidery scissors. It is made from thick canvas i..

Sajou Toile de Jouy embroidery scissors case
£12.95
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”
£19.50
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”
£25.00
A long, curved natural sharpening stone of about 320 to 400 grit. Quarried in the vicinity of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, this is a good stone for regul..

Opinel natural Lombardy sharpening stone, 24cm
£24.50
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
A6 paperbacked stitched and glued spine diary arranged with a week to a view, with both yearly and monthly planners to the front. Supplied with a clea..

Les Agenda de l'Année 2023 blue
£20.00
A6 paperbacked stitched and glued spine diary arranged with a week to a view, with both yearly and monthly planners to the front. Supplied with a clea..

Les Agenda de l'Année 2023 white
£20.00
A B5 paperbacked taped and glued spine monthly planner arranged with a month to view, with a yearly planner to the front and a section of lined blue p..

Penco Japanese paper Monthly Planner
£12.00
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 milled aluminium dip pen
£36.00
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, 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, 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, yellow
£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
Simple, soft card covered, stitch bound A5 sized note or exercise books from the LIFE company of Japan. Printed quadrille in pale green onto naturally..

A5 Life pistachio notebook, graph (N75)
£5.00