TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BRUSH - SHURO BRUSH - NIWAKI
Beautiful small traditional Japanese brush,
Handcrafted from Trachycarpus fortunei (Japanese windmill palm) fibers, bound together with copper wire.
Very practical and precise, this brush is ideal for cleaning your countertop, workbench, sawdust and wood dust, soil and leaves around your potted plants, etc.
- Dimensions: 170 x 100 mm
- Material: Trachycarpus fortunei fiber / copper wire
Niwaki tools, with their simple and effective design, created to last, are renowned for their exceptional quality.
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 were not just like gardens. They were mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, and waterfalls. It was everything he loved; these gardens told stories and made reference 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 implies a philosophy—that of the landscape, of recreating unique microcosms, and of the vision of a man and his bond with, his understanding of, and his learning from nature.
But all this was possible thanks to the use of tools that shared 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, mainly high-quality carbon steel
- good design, usually as simple as possible
- good craftsmanship, passed down from generation to generation.
Japanese tools do not skimp on any of these elements: you can feel the quality of the craftsmanship the moment you hold them; they simply and perfectly do the job for which they were designed, and they last, holding their edge for a long time and rewarding the user with years, decades, and even lifetimes of pleasure.