Used to finish edges of cloth with a zigzag cut for decoration or to prevent raveling or fraying.
Pinking shears - are scissors that leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge.
They are similar to scissors but have a zigzag edge to cut the edges of fabrics for decoration or to stop them from fraying.
Pinking shears can be found at most fabric shops. Walmart has a section on this also. eBay, Amazon, and Overstock also carry items like this. J+O Fabrics is an online outlet.
Pinking shears create seam edges from fraying.
Pinking shears are scissors, the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight. They leave a zigzag pattern, which limits fraying.
Pinking shears create seam edges from fraying.
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Pinking shears create seam edges from fraying.
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The difference between fabric scissors and pinking shears is not one of strength. Pinking shears are designed to give a zig-zag cut rather than a straight cut (which for some kinds of fabric will help prevent the cloth from unravelling into its constituent threads).
Scissors: pinking shears, standard, or electric, rotary wheel
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The cut produced by pinking shears may have given its name to (or be derived from) the plant name pink, a flowering plant in the genus Dianthus (commonly called a carnation). The colour pink may have been named after these flowers, although the origins of the name are not definitively known. As the carnation has scalloped, or "pinked", edges to its petals, pinking shears can be thought to produce an edge similar to the flower.