Originally Posted by
judykay
I agree with each one of these comments. Yesterday I was watching Carol Doak on Craftsy doing a paper piece class and she made an interesting comment about scissors. She said it was confirmed with the scissor companies that cutting paper with your sewing scissors does NOT dull the blades and she cuts paper with her sewing scissors and same rotary cutter that she uses for fabric and has not had any problems.
I wonder if anybody has ever scientifically tested this? Cut X yards of fabric and X yards of paper with identical scissors and examine them under a microscope. Maybe some scissor company has done this - that would be a sensible sort of test for them to do.