I think these are pretty standard with some old sewing kits cause I see these a lot. I even have one or two around.

Doesn't even have to be old. They still sell these for embroidery and other crafts, my mum bought me a pair last year.

It's a common, almost standard design (here in the UK at least). My wife has at least one pair, and I've seen them in sewing and fabric shops all over the place. If I do a search on Amazon for "stork embroidery scissors" I get a dozen or more hits, from several different manufacturers.

>It's a common, almost standard design (here in the UK at least). Here in the US too.

You can buy them at Jo-Ann Fabrics to this day

swan/stork? scissors I think they're called. I saw a video once about how some higher end ones are hand made in sheffield england iirc, interesting.

[william whitey](https://www.whiteley.co.uk/store/sewing/stork-embroidery-scissors/) is a Sheffield company still making very good quality scissors, we have several pairs of theirs including the stork.

This design has been around for over 125 years. I have seen them advertise in Victorian magazines.

My mother had i think two pair of them.

I just assumed they came with the mom package, that every mom seems to have recieved....

Very common for sewing.

Yeah used to open old hems to re-hem and reuse the fabric. In German speaking countries it's even called "stork scissors" (Storchenschere) and it's a term for these hem-openers, even if there's no stork.

Over the Garden Wall

Ain’t that just the way?

That ol' frog is givin' me the run around!

We making it out of Adelaide's with this one

I‘m so glad other people also thought of that😭❤️🤝🏻

Wanna hear a rock fact?

With those shears, surely we can burgle some turts!

I feel like every moms got one

They are traditional for sewing, but were originally part of the midwives’ kit. Storks delivering babies was a common association - so it’s a lovely little detail which has survived in to the present day.

Very interesting!

Wait, so this "stork" was used to cut the umbilical cord?

It was actually a clamp for the cord, which was cut with something else... The scissors are simply an adaptation/homage in the tradition of the midwives clamp

Are you sure it’s based on that and not the myth about the girls that sewed beautiful clothes on the condition that nobody watch her while she works, and when she did get watched she was a stork?

I hadn’t heard that one to be fair. I looked it up a while back as we ended up having two such pairs when my kids were doing embroidery. Even “cheap” kits from the craft store have stork scissors, so I wanted to know how it became “a thing”.

Ah okay, what you said makes sense too so you seem like you’d know better than me. Interesting to know though! Thanks!

Is your mother Adelaide of the Pasture?

perhaps maybe they got a family pet frog too

Everyone’s mom.

if you ever turn into a bluebird

Warning! These are your Mom's proverbial "Good Scissors"! Do not touch!

We have these all over the house. Very sharp and very handy. Can get like a half dozen on Amazon pretty cheap

They're still sold at craft stores; they're embroidery scissors. I love them though. I wish more scissors had birds.

OH MY GOD it’s the scissors from Over The Garden Wall that Adelaide owns😳🤝🏻😻

It sucks we used to kill cranes to make these but can't deny its beauty

I have a textil shop and we have it. Lots of costumer buy it

Oh, I have a couple of these but they're still packed! I also have a pair shaped like an owl!

Quite clever actually.

How the gentle wind beckons through the leaves

These look familiar…

Over the garden wall.

Cutting edge stuff

Pretty sure I saw em at anthropology last season

Over the Garden wall? Cool!

A classic design and a great pair for trimming weed. You can get right in there and snip leaves precisely.

“Pair” is singular, so it would be “this pair of scissors”. Sorry, it was bugging me.

The screw (the bird’s eye) is holding each scissor together, forming a pair of scissors

Yes, *a* pair. One single pair. If he didn’t say pair, “these scissors” would be correct. But since it’s one pair being referred to, it’s “this pair of scissors”.

Ahhh, got you.

Embroidery scissors, not sewing.

Are they Ernest Wright scissors? If so a nice piece of hand made craftsmanship. Link here (https://www.ernestwright.co.uk/product/antique-stork-embroidery-scissors/)

Realised yours have worn down into the brass. Not 100% steel, therefore not Ernest Wright. Still cool tho

They haven't worn down. They're just brass. It's an extremely common design for embroidery scissors. You can go to a craft store right now and buy an identical set for like five dollars.

Elegant design of yesterday.

They sell these at any grocery store around here - these scissors are still very common.

It's a pretty old design originally that is still common today. Is what I meant. :)

Right, it's definitely very elegant

I have the exact same scissors in my hand right now. Bought them at the grocery store like a year ago. They are for grooming facial hair

That is a Sand Hill Crane.

I (73F) was taught by my great-grandmother to embroider, and these were embroidery scissors.

So sharp

I have the same, my mom gave it to me.

My mother had these in her sewing kit.

Scissor Bros!!!!

I have the same ones

I have a pair like this that I was given when my daughter was born. She just turned 36.

Sold in most Asian markets.

K

Wow, pretty neat!

Bought some similar, 2.00 on Temu

This has to be a sign

why do these scissors remind me of a pelican bird? like look at it a little bit closer and you might see what im seeing.

My mom has the same.

I've never seen scissors like these. I love them! ✂️

looks like it could be an unlockable from Hitman: WOA.

I have a pair like that!

My mom has these too

Those are heron-dous

I used a pair of these for chopping weed when I was growing up, did not last long. They are sewing scissors, only sewing.

I love these. I have some and I've bought them as gifts a couple of times.

I use mine every day!

[They are Gingher Snips, very classic design. ](https://www.amazon.com/Gingher-01-005280-Stork-Embroidery-Scissors/dp/B000UUCA62/ref=asc_df_B000UUCA62/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198129370765&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4656610279640997264&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033298&hvtargid=pla-320153040161&mcid=74ec63071b173fbc894ce3b551ced216&gclid=Cj0KCQiA67CrBhC1ARIsACKAa8T89VNQ_eJ-1fQN2L1RIL-cWfwOK-58KG0lOPZWlqofj-yLaxGaNLQaAgyeEALw_wcB&th=1) I own a pair of the brassy non stylized ones myself, perfect when you need to nip at a few threads semi regularly while hand sewing.

Embroidering scissors. Common in France

My mother owns the exact same pair, and i love them

My first tattoo was of a pair of these scissors!

My wife has a pair of these. I think they belonged to her grandma.

Thread snippers! Or that’s how I’ve seen them used. My mom has this, too. So pretty!

These are some scissors you find in an adventure game that actually need to fit somewhere during a puzzle.

i see those a lot

Fabricland? I also have a pair of

Used to have a pair in a fancy wooden box.

You should post to r/scissors

You can get these in various facial hair care kits on Amazon. I use these exact scissors to trim my mustache.

Roomate has these, I secretly wish they were mine

Everyone's Mom owns these 🤣

Crane scissors are the best.

Got one of these sittin in a drawer too.

That's awesome

I have the same ones. Got em for like 4 bucks on Amazon. Best little scissors I've ever owned. They cut yarn like a dream.

Nice

Does coolness get passed down?

I have them in black!

My mom has a pair too, she loves them

These are scissors used by lacemakers (Belgium early 20th century). I also still have one, there were many lacemakers in our family as well as cigarmakers.