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, silver satin
£69.00
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
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 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 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
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, 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 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
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
A squared paper A5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Jap..

A5 Noble notebook, graph (red)
£15.00
A ruled 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, ruled (blue)
£15.00
A handy and appealing little ring-bound notebook, with 60 sheets of creamy coloured high-quality paper, printed with cinnamon-coloured lines, spaced 7..

A6 Life Cinnamon ring bound notebook, ruled
£9.00
A handy and appealing little ring-bound notebook, with 60 sheets of white high-quality paper, printed with blue-coloured lines, spaced 7mm apart (19 l..

A6 Life Ramune ring bound notebook, ruled
£9.00
A squared paper B7 flip-top notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality ..

B7 Noble notebook, graph (red)
£5.00
A ruled paper B7 flip-top notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Ja..

B7 Noble notebook, ruled (blue)
£5.00
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 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
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 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 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
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
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
An A5 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 plain pages, red cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured paper ..

Portuguese notebook, A5, blank, red
£19.50
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 A5 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 ruled pages, black cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured pape..

Portuguese notebook, A5, ruled, black
£19.50
An A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 plain pages, red cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured paper ..

Portuguese notebook, A6, blank, red
£12.50
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 A6 handmade 90 gram cream paper notebook with 100 ruled pages, black cotton cloth bound corners and spines, and matching hand-sponged coloured pape..

Portuguese notebook, A6, ruled, black
£12.50
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
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 – £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 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
A two metre printed steel tape metrical scale marked in centimetres and millimetres. Sprung to retract, but not locking. Housed in a solid stainless s..

Pocket tape measure
£13.50
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
£22.00
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
£22.00
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
£22.00
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
£22.00
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
£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 Red
£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
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
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
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
£4.50
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 ..

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
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..

White Koh-i-Noor logo eraser
£1.00
Swiss company Caran D’Ache’s standard edition metal sharpening machine. Caran d'Ache means pencil in Russian and has its roots in the Turkish word

Swiss Caran d'Ache pencil sharpening machine
£165.00
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
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 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
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
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, large, ivory
£38.00
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, large, red
£38.00
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, green
£25.00
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 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
£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..

French 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 (20g or about 210)
£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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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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
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..

15 assorted no.3 to no.9 French sewing needles, Toile de Jouy booklet
£6.00
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
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
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
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
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
£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
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 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 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 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
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
Handmade in Italy by InTempo — an Italian company founded in 1973 and based in Florence. The company has over thirty years experience in the design an..

Italian notebook with elastic
£16.50
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
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
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
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