What you should know about scissors

Terminology, materials, edge and blade

4. The area between "eyes" and blades

The area between the "eyes" and the blade forms the handle. The eye ring is the working surface for the fingers. The eye rings should be formed so that they fit the natural shape of the fingers harmoniously. Of crucial importance for pain-free work is the careful, smooth surface machining of the inside of the eye rings.

Depending on the function for which the scissors are intended, the eye ring must be appropriately large or small for rough or fine work demanding high or low levels of exertion. The "eyes" are shaped according to the size and function of the scissors. To enable large scissors to be held and worked with two or more fingers the eye ring is often significantly larger and oval.

The eye rings of scissors with plastic handles can be particularly well fitted to the anatomy of the hand. In the development of new series of scissors and shears ZWILLING J.A. HENCKELS works with forms of designs that take special account of ergonomic aspects.

5. The scissor tips: Rounded or fine

The finer the cutting requirements of a pair of scissors - e.g. embroidery scissors - the more pointed and narrower the scissors tip needs to be. Good scissors must cut cleanly right up to the last millimetre of the blade and at ZWILLING J.A. HENCKELS, the "point cut" of the scissors are specifically tested.

Rounded scissors and shears are used as children´s and pocket scissors. Here the emphasis is simply placed on safety.