ARM GUARDS - GARDENER GUARDS - NIWAKI
To avoid ending up with scratched arms or stained or torn sleeves, Niwaki arm covers will protect you while pruning your trees or rose bushes.
In sand-colored cotton with red ribbed cuffs.
- Material: 450g (16oz) heavy cotton canvas
- Dimensions: 410 x 192mm
- Sold as a pair
Niwaki brings the best of Japanese craftsmanship to gardeners, chefs, and artisans alike. Tools with a simple and efficient design, created to last and renowned for their exceptional quality.
- Weight: 100 g
- Dimensions: 410 × 192 mm
- Material: 100% cotton
- Cotton lycra ribbing
- Made in China
After studying sculpture in London, Jake Hobson went to Japan to investigate the Japanese relationship with nature and their surrounding environment.
Jake discovered that Japanese gardens didn't just look like gardens. They were mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, and waterfalls. It was everything he loved; these gardens told stories and referred to real landscapes in Japan.
Niwaki literally means "garden tree"; it is the art of tree pruning, which is very different from Bonsai, as the roots are not pruned. But Niwaki is much more than that. It involves a philosophy—that of the landscape, of recreating unique microcosms, and the vision of a man and his connection to, understanding of, and learning from nature.
But all this was possible thanks to the use of tools sharing the same philosophy, created slowly, simply, and by hand by local master blacksmiths with exceptional expertise.
For Jake Hobson, every tool has three crucial elements:
- good material, primarily high-quality carbon steel
- good design, generally as simple as possible
- good craftsmanship, passed down from generation to generation.
Japanese tools do not cut corners on any of these elements: you feel the quality of the craftsmanship as soon as you hold them in your hand; they simply and perfectly do the job they were designed for, and they last, holding their edge for a long time, rewarding the user with years, decades, and even lifetimes of pleasure.