It began innocently enough: I have a photo of a table brush on my inspiration board, a small little brush and dustpan which you can use to sweep crumbs off of your table, and I thought to myself that it is quite sensible and useful, and then, then I wondered if there were other wooden brushes out there that I might find useful. The answer is yes, yes there are:

Now I'm entirely unsatisfied with my cleaning brushes, sad plastic things that they are, and I think I may have inadvertently begun a collection.   The only thing I need to decide now is which one will be first...

all brushes and photos found at: caldrea, labour and wait, hen and hammock, pedlars, dwr, not on the high street