Clover

There's a story we love here. At fourteen, on his way to an apprenticeship, Toshio Okada stopped to eat and opened a book of moral training. He clipped a clover leaf from a rice paddy to keep his place, and that leaf, he said, "became the signpost of his life".

He founded the business in 1925. It celebrated a hundred years in 2025, and there's still an Okada at the head.

What they're after is a tool you can hold all day – hooks and needles with a grip that curves to fit your fingertips, so you're not forcing anything and your hands can keep going. And there's a fabulous range of it: hooks, notions and accessories for every part of your knitting and crochet.