Item: scissors (green handle, made in Nashville) – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Item: scissors (green handle, made in Nashville)

In the shop window, how could I resist?

While these snapshots are hardly exemplary, someone once asked me about my new scissors purchased at “The Papery” in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, sprung 2023

The answer to the inquiry is “Design Works Ink” made in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

seeing the noble tool resting on top of a typewriter in the window and knowing they *must be mine*, the heavy steel construction, the hand fit, and the adorable paper tag hanging off which I can’t bring myself to snip off

A store, called “the papery” as I recall, I got out of there in slightly under triple digits of $

So I’m not sure on which channel somebody asked “what brand are these? And so on” but I hope this post finds you

These stalwart beauty scissors are still going strong after decades of use by my mom and decades more by me

Partially inherited from my mother, I have a penchant for great scissors – honed from decades of arts and crafts project – Indeed, there are many scissors around the house and several of them are great, and it seems the great ones all share a similar style of simplicity, sturdiness and unassuming ergonomic hand fit

Scrapbook cover: “poetic tonics” // handed-crafted w/ #Aerogramme cover // shown with magnificent #scissors purchased at The Papery in Victoria, BC (price tag still attached because very cute & still thrilled i have such a magnificent pair of scissors, purchased new) #Scrapbook

{no doubt other scissors are documented throughout this archive but you’re very clever so if you want, you will find – you see, traveling by small rucksack replete with scrapbook kit in tow, I repeatedly had scissors & lovely pocket knives confiscated (i try to remember!) so end up buying a “cheap n cheerful” temporary set in many countries which only exist in snapshots as I gifted them down the line}

Scroll to Top