What are these scissors used for?
02-22-2011, 02:43 PM
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I have been sorting through my mom's sewing stuff, trying to organize the mess that is called my sewing room.
I am across these scissors - Which I have no idea what they are suppose to be used for- they are around 4 1/2" long - the blade is 1 1/2" long - but only 1" is sharp and cuts. There is a 1/2" cut out on both blades. The screw when twisted pulls out a brass gear thingamagig - which prevents the scissors from fully closing -
They say Von Cleff & Co. on 1 side and PAT. 7393 Germany on the other side.
Does anyone know what they are used for.
I am across these scissors - Which I have no idea what they are suppose to be used for- they are around 4 1/2" long - the blade is 1 1/2" long - but only 1" is sharp and cuts. There is a 1/2" cut out on both blades. The screw when twisted pulls out a brass gear thingamagig - which prevents the scissors from fully closing -
They say Von Cleff & Co. on 1 side and PAT. 7393 Germany on the other side.
Does anyone know what they are used for.
02-22-2011, 02:49 PM
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you...nhole_scissors
Originally Posted by JUNEC
Okay, what are buttonhole scissors - or should I say how do you use them?
02-22-2011, 02:53 PM
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They are for cutting buttonholes. Probably old enough to be before machine made button holes. I can remember learning to stitch buttonholes by hand. As I remember you cut first and then stitched. Remember my mother getting a buttonholer for her old singer treadle. ( She sewed a lot of clothes when I was young.). Then when she got her electric zigzag machine it was off to the races. That was in the early 60's. I was about ten.
02-22-2011, 03:01 PM
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Button hole scissors. You set that screw so you don't accidentally cut through the stitching at the end of the place you want to cut open. The pointy things on the blades will make the original hole in the fabric and you cut to the end. I don't recall ever using the tips of the blades to actually cut the buttonhole open. It's a lot more accurate than anything else I've used. That seam ripper can slip and rip through the stitching awfully easy--guess how I know!
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