Ciselier Company

Nov 22, 2024 | ciselier.com | David Thomas

Your favourite household tool has a dark sideAny fan of horror and action movies knows scissors can be absolutely lethal, even if it is a lot more common to go all slasher with a knife. We did some digging into some movie lore to pull some of the more colourful – i.e. bloody – cinematic uses of everyone’s favourite household tool. One of the advantages of working scissors into your frightfest is it tends to be unexpected. A serious slasher psychopath tends to go for a knife as a weapon.

Sep 14, 2024 | ciselier.com | David Thomas

In 2020, satirical online publication The Onion published an article titled, "10 Breathtaking Photos that Perfectly Capture the Unwavering Spirit of Scissors". In classic satirical style, the writer attempts to mock a mundane item by elevating it to mythical proportions.

Oct 28, 2023 | ciselier.com | David Thomas

Supply chains are a huge challenge in the world of heritage, hand-crafted scissorsOne of the most interesting (and at times challenging!) aspects of finding and marketing heritage, hand crafted scissors is the supply chain. It is complicated, it is constrained, and traversing it can take a very long timeWhen you’re taking about making a high-quality physical item like our scissors, there are no shortcuts.

Oct 5, 2023 | ciselier.com | David Thomas

Why many of us are losing our gripOne of our scissor makers, William Whiteley, was founded in 1760, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Unparalleled by almost any other event in human history, Industrialization rapidly ushered in dramatic social and economic upheaval - both good and bad:"Before the Industrial Revolution, artisans with specialized skills produced most of Europe’s manufactured goods.

Sep 25, 2023 | ciselier.com | David Thomas

Earlier this month, we announced a very exciting new (to us) scissor model: the Fennek Grandi Grandi Forbici (literally "GREAT BIG SCISSORS" in Italian). Clocking in at a majestic 12 inches, the "GG Forbici" have been in production since Fennek was founded in Premana in 1895. We let our newsletter subscribers know first (as we do) and then decided to tell the world, via ads in The New Yorker magazine and Canada's The Globe & Mail newspaper.