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You are hereby banned from the sewing room.

You think cutting through a tree won’t dull scissors? Fabric is made from plant fluff or hair.

More seriously - Yes you can sharpen them but many fabric stores no longer offer the service regularly. Some knife sharpeners will do it but others won’t. My scissors can be sent back to the maker to be sharpened but then I would be without my fabric scissors for weeks. If you do it yourself you will fail.

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This is one of my favorite comments of all time. I have sent a screen shot to three different people that get pissed when I won’t let them use my shears.

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had no idea about the level of complexity in sharpening scissors. TIL

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They are more difficult than knives because they have to be sharpened so that they work as a set. If you screw it up, they no longer cut clean along the correct plane.

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It’s not that bad, they’re single bevel so you’d have to try to sharpen the wrong side of the blade to fuck it up too badly

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