I£25
Skin Fades
Clipper work taken right down to the skin and blended seamlessly into the longer top. Sharp, modern, finished with a hot towel.
K&B
Knot & Blade
Barbers · Est. 2015
Walk-ins Welcome · Shoreditch
Proper cuts.
Hot towels.
No appointments needed.
A traditional barber shop on the edge of Shoreditch. Four master barbers, four leather chairs, and the kind of haircut your grandfather used to get — with a hot towel finish and a decent cup of tea.
4
Master Barbers
2015
Est.
0
Appointments
— Chair No. 1 —
EST.
2015
2015
/ On the Menu
Five things,
done properly.
We're not a hair design studio. We don't do colour, we don't do extensions. We cut hair and we shave faces. That's the lot — and we do it as well as anyone in London.
II£32
Cut-Throat Shaves
The full ritual — hot towels, badger brush, traditional lather, straight razor. Forty-five minutes of proper barbering.
III£18
Beard Sculpting
Trimmed, shaped and lined out with the straight razor. Beard oil applied to finish. For the gent who takes his face seriously.
IV£40
Father & Son Cuts
Two chairs side by side, cuts for the old man and the lad together. A little memory in the making. Boys under 12.
V£90
Wedding Day Grooming
Cut, shave and beard tidy on the morning of the big day. Groom and groomsmen welcome. Champagne supplied, naturally.
— The Straight Razor —
/ The Shop
Four chairs.
Eleven years.
Knot & Blade opened on Calvert Avenue in 2015 with one quiet ambition — to bring proper traditional barbering back to this corner of East London. Four leather chairs, four master barbers, a glass case of Truefitt & Hill tonics, and a wireless playing test cricket in the summer.
Walk-ins only. No app, no online booking, no thirty-page consultation form. You come in, you sit down, you get a cut and a hot towel. There's a dog bowl by the door, decent coffee on the side and a copy of the Times to read while you wait.
Walk-ins WelcomeHot Towel ServiceDog Water BowlFree WiFiTea & Coffee
/ The Ledger
Prices, in black and white.
Same prices on the wall for eleven years. Cash, card or contactless — no minimum, no surcharge.
Knot & Blade — Calvert Ave, E2
Rev. 06/26
Skin fade£25
Classic cut£22
Beard trim£18
Cut + beard£35
Cut-throat shave£32
Father + son£40
Under-12s cut£15
Pensioner cut (Wed)£18
Wedding party (per head)£90
Hot towel + tonicIncluded
All cuts include hot towel · tonic on request
/ The Chairs
Four master barbers.
No juniors, no trainees. Every chair is run by someone who has been on the tools for a decade or more.
TW
Chair I
Tommy Whelan
Master Barber · Owner
Twenty years on the chair. Trained on Jermyn Street. Specialist in gentlemen's cuts and the cut-throat shave.
Est. 2015
MC
Chair II
Marco Costa
Senior Barber
Lisbon-trained, fast and precise. The man for a skin fade or anything that needs a sharp line.
With us since 2017
EF
Chair III
Eddie Fenton
Senior Barber
Old-school British barbering, beard sculpting and the deeply unfashionable side parting done properly.
With us since 2019
SO
Chair IV
Sam Okafor
Barber
Modern cuts, textured crops and styling. Brilliant with the lads coming in for their first proper haircut.
With us since 2022
“
Walked in on a Saturday with my boy. Tommy did me, Marco did him, and we both came out looking like proper gentlemen. The hot towel finish alone is worth the price of admission. Best barbers in East London, no question.
James W.
Hackney · Regular since 2018
/ How To Find Us
On Calvert Avenue,
by the church.
Two minutes from Shoreditch High Street station, on the corner opposite St Leonard's. Look for the red-and-white pole outside — we keep it spinning all day.
Telephone
020 7405 8800
Address
18 Calvert Avenue
Shoreditch, London E2 7JP
Shoreditch, London E2 7JP
Opening Hours
Tue – Fri09:00 – 19:00
Saturday08:00 – 18:00
Sunday10:00 – 15:00
MondayClosed
— Shoreditch · E2 —
2 min walk from Shoreditch High St (Overground)