The 8.25 inch Left-handed dressmaker shears are of high quality and easy to use. We make a right-handed version and a left-handed version. A versatile scissor, they are perfect for cutting through textiles and tough fabric (canvas, rope, carpet, rubber), making them fit for both professional and daily tasks. Lightweight and capable, the 3.75 inch carbon steel blades will never let you down. Hot forged and hand made in Sheffield, by craftsmen with traditional techniques. A mirror finish makes these shears the most beautiful tool you’ve ever owned.
8.25″ Dressmaker shears (Left-handed)
£99.00
Available on back-order
Our scissors and shears are made in small batches.
A batch can take up to 12 weeks.
In stock items are despatched within 10 days.
Backorders are fulfilled in order as batches are completed.
Made in Sheffield
Details
- Category
- Sewing
- Type
- Dressmaker shears, Fabric shears, Tailor shears
- Use
- Tailors and dressmakers, cutting fabric
- Total length
- 8.25 inch / 21 cm
- Blade length
- 3.75 inch / 9.5 cm
- Weight
- 400 g
- Steel
- C50 carbon steel
- Forging
- Hot drop forged
- Finish
- Hand polished
- Packaging
- Left-handed sliding tray presentation box
- Handedness
- Left-handed
Why most scissors and shears are not ambidextrous
Think back to your school days. If you were left-handed, you may recall wondering why you couldn’t use the same scissors as most of the other kids. The scissors all looked the same, so what was the difference?
When you use a pair of scissors or shears, your hand should squeeze the blades together, at the same time as closing them vertically. This lateral squeeze (which the hand applies naturally) means the edges of the blades are pressed together closely, enabling their bypass cutting action. So, when a right-handed pair of scissors is used in a left hand, the hand will tend to squeeze the blades away from one another, resulting in a wide, messy cut.
Left-handed scissors and shears are made as mechanical mirror images of their right-handed counterparts, so that the blades can be pushed together by the user’s hand in a natural cutting motion. Some left-handed folk have some success in making right-handed scissors or shears work in their hand, by cleverly adjusting their technique. However, the right long-term solution for comfortable, accurate cutting is to choose left-handed dressmaker shears or tailor shears made specifically for left-handed use.
