I have some curved Elan scissors which are particularly good and some Solignen embroidery scissors which do the trick. Unfortunately, I don't know the name of a little pair of scissors that my grandmother gave me - which are the best. I saw ones which looked the same for sale in a scissor shop window about 10years ago and they were $80 then...My gran was not rich, so I imagined she saved for a while to get them for me.