Yesterday in Bern we just happened across Klotzli the most amazing knife and scissor shop. I love good knives and scissors and it was like heaven – all sorts of specialised ones, beautifully made. I got chatting to the owner (it’s a family business from 1846) and he showed me some of the more specialised scissors – those with lovely patterns that he said wouldn’t be available when his last ones had gone; those like old editors ones where the blade is much longer than the handle part; and leather scissors where the opposite happens so there is much more leverage for tougher cutting. I fell for a beautiful tiny pair of high precision scissors for paper cutting and a more general pair for my work.
