New Scissors and New Thread Color

Mary Corbet has managed to get her hands on the new Dovo scissors in the style called Anne.

https://www.needlenthread.com/2025/02/dovo-scissors-shaded-metallics-purple.html

Dovo scissors were discontinued but the company has started to make them again.  Mary thinks she'll be able to get them fairly regularly now but don't dawdle if you want a pair.  Whoops!  Sold out already.  Ask to be on her wait list for the next shipment.

https://shop.needlenthread.com/product/dove-embroidery-scissors

Mary also got a shipment of the Au Ver a Soie metallics in shades of purple, which are new--and beautiful!  You can pick up sets of various colors in her shop.  Right now Mary carries mostly size 8 (yes, just the same as Kreinik's size 8) although she does have a gold in size 4.

https://shop.needlenthread.com/product/shaded-metallic-thread-sets

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A Replacement for Dovo Scissors? UPDATED

If you are a fan of Dovo scissors and mourned the company's closing, Mary Corbet may have found a replacement.

https://www.needlenthread.com/2024/04/golden-forge-embroidery-scissors-dovo-substitute.html

Golden Forge scissors are imported from Switzerland by Access Commodities, which always brings us the best stuff.

UPDATE:  Now the Golden Forge scissors come with larger finger holes, red handles and vine-like etching on the blades.  They really are pretty.

https://www.needlenthread.com/2024/08/seeing-delectable-red-new-scissors.html

Apparently they are coming in blue and green as well.  The green also has the larger finger holes and etching.  As always, shop around.  The prices vary by as much as $30 depending on where you buy.

https://hoopandframe.com/products/golden-forge-scissors?variant=46532681957626

Needle in a Haystack will have them in lilac, too.  

https://needlestack.americommerce.com/golden-forge-scissors.aspx

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Dovo Scissors Available Again in Limited Supply

Are you a fan of Dovo scissors? The company went into bankruptcy and reorganized and as a result, stopped making scissors. But they recently decided to make a few more and this shop is eagerly awaiting their order for two sizes of Dovo scissors.  They have already sold out the smaller size that are due next week, but they anticipate getting more in August, so if you want a pair, you should contact them and let them know you want to be on the wait list. I believe there are still four inch scissors available, at least there were last week when I wrote this article.  This is a very big counted thread store in Oklahoma, by the way. I've been on their mailing list for years.
https://www.thesilverneedle.com/scissors.html

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Substitutes for Dovo Scissors

Mary Corbet's latest article is about finding substitutes for Dovo scissors now that the company has gone bankrupt.  That doesn't mean Dovo scissors aren't available but the prices are getting quite high, so Mary's found a substitute in some of the Premax scissors from Italy.

https://www.needlenthread.com/2021/07/dovo-scissors-substitutes.html

If you are a fan, here is what I found for Dovo scissors and for Premax pairs.  Shop around.  These are the first links that came up that are needlework shops so you may find a better price elsewhere.  

https://www.oldfashionedbaby.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=637

https://www.anitalittlestitches.com/product5278.html

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Let's Go Rescue Dovo Scissors UPDATED

Jessica Grimm's latest blog posting alerted me to the fact that Dovo Scissors in Germany is in financial trouble.
https://www.jessicagrimm.com/blog/embroidery-bits-and-bobs7911269

I know a great many people love Dovo scissors, so it is time for fans to buy a new pair to try and give the company a little time to get their financial house in order.  It would be especially nice if you bought from Jessica herself since she's a small business in Germany and hard hit by the quarantine rules right now.
https://www.jessicagrimm.com/store/c25/Scissors.html

UPDATE:  If you were curious about Broche, here's more information, and Jessica has added new types of Dovo scissors to her online store.  See?  That's how it works in needlework businesses:  buy something and you support the craftsmen who made it, the distributor who gets it into the stores, and the shop that sells it to you.  Go Dovo!
https://www.jessicagrimm.com/blog/the-brochebrodsebretsche-part-ii

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Ugly Scissors and a Goodbye

Yesterday didn't get off to a good start--it was raining (AGAIN-I swear that I am going to mildew!) and I got an email from Scarlet Thread--you remember the fun I had there just a couple of weeks ago, right?--saying that they are closing. Much weeping must be going on in the counted thread community in northern Virginia. The shop carries a huge variety of the overdyed cottons and silks that repo sampler and chart folks adore. I will miss it, myself, even though it was never my primary shop. I just hope the two needlepoint shops in the area (Needlewoman East and Waste Knot) take up some of the slack for my friends who love charts and history.

Some good things happened yesterday. I continued my Basketweave Marathon on Holi's background. I think a couple more days and she'll be finished! Hurrah! I love finishing one project and starting another, don't you?

I also heard about these Dovo scissors in Gay Ann Roger's cyber classroom in the Shining Needle Society. Gay Ann's students are mostly counted thread folks and may of them swear by Dovo scissors. No one here carries Dovos so I haven't seen them to give a review but judging from the technical skill of my fellow students, these are worth seeking out. These are called "ugly scissors" by Maxine. You can see why!

http://www.creweljewels.com/DOVO-3-5-Extra-Narrow-Curved-Scissors-p/30125.htm

I think I'll go work on my basketweave again and dream of new scissors instead of mourning a shop that is about to vanish. Things change, and not always for the better, but that is Life.

Hugs to all from CH-me

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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