Brand: Small items
9 inch paper scissors of fine ground high carbon tools steel with a low friction easy clean protective coating. Made in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 1760, or for at least 11 generations. With over 250 standard patterns covering all uses from general household to for..
£66.00
Ex Tax:£55.00
Brand: Wilkinson
Chrome plated, black lacquered handles, side-bent for flat working available in 10" or 12" lengths. The properly curved and tensioned blades will make short work of the widest reams of fabric, paper, or card, and the large bolts and machine screws make for easy re-adjustment. Made in Sheffield by Wi..
£145.00
Ex Tax:£120.83
Brand: Wilkinson
12" chrome plated, black lacquered handled, sidebent trimmers for flat working. Good for use as tailor's shears, or for card and paper these are the biggest size standard tailor's shear made in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 1760, or for at least 11 generations. With ..
£285.00
Ex Tax:£237.50
A pair of small and precise, yet strong nickel-plated workshop scissors, made in France, with pointed blades which can be used for all those jobs where embroidery scissors would be too delicate. These are even strong enough for cutting your nails. Hot forged and assembled entirely in France, adjuste..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Made in France, a small round metal tin containing roughly 120 fine n°5 (1/4") classic dressmakers pins, with a diameter of 0.70 mm for a length of 32 mm. These pins are highly recommended for light fabrics. The tin is covered with a round label representing "French genius, enlightening the wo..
£9.50
Ex Tax:£7.92
Brand: Small items
A pair of 14cm chrome-plated scissors of a pattern originating in Rouen, Northern France. These scissors were traditionally favoured by the cloth merchants of Paris as their double rounded blades neither snagged whilst cutting cloth, nor whilst stored in pockets for easy access and regular use. Made..
£32.50
Ex Tax:£27.08
Brand: Small items
A beech haberdasher's metre stick or rule produced for the Bohin company in Turkey by a drawing tool manufacturer specialising in wooden measuring instruments since 1947. Designed to quickly measure lengths of cloth the metre stick is marked on both sides with reversed scales (counting up in opposit..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Small items
Double curve silver-plated embroidery scissors with small, fine, and easy-to-manage blades that allow you to cut threads precisely. Particularly practical for embroidery, the curved blades allow you to cut threads in delicate places. The curved handles avoid your wrist inhibiting your movements, the..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Small items
These elegantly simple embroidery scissors have small, thin and easy-to-handle blades, to allow you to cut threads precisely. Specially designed for left-handers, these scissors are the product of skilled craftsmanship combined with modern production techniques, being hot-forged and finished by hand..
£24.75
Ex Tax:£20.63
Brand: Small items
Fine tipped French embroidery scissors with gold plated and larger handle loops ideal for those with larger hands, or who prefer to hold the scissors further down their fingers, whether for comfort or control. A kind of oversized ‘little monster’. From small workshops in the town of Nogent in the Ha..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
French embroidery scissors in a classic stork pattern and with gold-plated neck, body, and handles. It’s believed that the stork design had its origins in the decoration of umbilical clamps modelled thus after the mythological feathered midwife. From small workshops in the town of Nogent in the Haut..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Small items
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 5.5 inch Catalan sewing scissors, with one pointed and one rounded tip for detailed work hopefully with minimal potential for snagging. From the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town on..
£19.00
Ex Tax:£15.83
Brand: Small items
Steel and nickel plated hot forged, hand ground, paired, and finished 8 inch elegant Catalan dressmaking scissors, with one pointed and one rounded tip for detailed work hopefully with minimal potential for snagging. From the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès the one surviving knife and tool maker i..
£27.00
Ex Tax:£22.50
Brand: Oversize items
A naturally coloured un-dyed wool traditional Caernarfon pattern Welsh tapestry blanket or carthen, woven in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire on a dobby loom using skills and techniques that go back over 100 years, and in a mill dating back to the 1880s — One of the few surviving of the once flourishin..
Brand: Small items
Hand-woven on a traditional small Andean loom, in two strips which are then sewn together, this light yet warm throw is made using 100% locally sourced alpaca from herds that graze between 3,500 and 5,000 metres above sea level in the highlands of Bolivia. Made by WFTO certified producers whose..
£145.00
Ex Tax:£120.83