the quilts made from the kits won't look like the originals as they kits are all cut accurately. I would assume the "no scissors" means with the kit there is no cutting other than in length. I have tried to discover how the originals were made but no one can tell me other than the quiltmaker cut by "eye" so to speak without templates or patterns and just estimated the size and didn't worry about matched seams. I believe if one made a similar quilt one of the important things would be to cut all pieces with scissors and not the rotary cutter.here is an interesting book titled "Accidently on Purpose" that has a lot of information about how the quiltmaker worked.