Hanoi Capsule Collection (2019)
Iron Scissors
Preorder | Next batch end of August 2019
€
16
Size
The next batch will arrive end of August 2019
Rubberized handles.
Totally not stainless steel, made of iron.
Handmade in Da Sy, in Kien Hung.
Perfect for household purposes, cutting ribbons and crude gardening.
Rubberized handles.
Totally not stainless steel, made of iron.
Handmade in Da Sy, in Kien Hung.
Perfect for household purposes, cutting ribbons and crude gardening.
The essential tool of Vietnam.
When you roam the street of Vietnam you will see that scissors are an extension of the hand. Ubiquitous in street life, their purposes are manifold. They substitute knives for eating and kitchen tools for grabbing and shifting food. As an outside observer you almost feel sad for your scissors at home, since they are only used in such limited applications, pampered and then get put to sleep in deep dark drawers. But these here, they have a proper job, they are in high demand, everyday, all the time — working scissors, they are doing true and hard work.
The simplicity of the design and production make them almost an expendable good. Cheap enough to not care but honest enough to hold dear to one's heart. We fell in love with the green iron scissors for their iconic, easy to recognize design and robust materials: Rubberized handles and lubricated blades, that are bent to achieve a satisfying closing & opening. These are not precision tools but loyal companion for years to come. Finding them in the garden in spring you can count on them and fall in love all over again — a little bit of oil should do the job.
From Da Sy Village
Descendent of lineage of loyal tools used for the most honourable purposes, the turquoise scissors are the great grand daughters of paladin's swords. Crafted with the same techniques once used to forge the blades that liberated Vietnam from invaders, they live their purposeful inheritance by becoming the number one tools in the Hanoians' lives. They are confectioned in a blacksmith commune called Da Sy, where families have been forging cold steel weapons since the 13th century. Find more information and pictures here.
The Da Sy Association of Metal Forging is formed by 80% of the village's families who master the craft confectioning farming and household tools to be used not only in Vietnam but in Laos, Cambodia, Germany, France and the US. The Da Sy Village is now part of the Hanoi's Traditional Craft Development Planning to ensure this tradition is preserved and shared beyond Vietnamese boundaries.
Descendent of lineage of loyal tools used for the most honourable purposes, the turquoise scissors are the great grand daughters of paladin's swords. Crafted with the same techniques once used to forge the blades that liberated Vietnam from invaders, they live their purposeful inheritance by becoming the number one tools in the Hanoians' lives. They are confectioned in a blacksmith commune called Da Sy, where families have been forging cold steel weapons since the 13th century. Find more information and pictures here.
The Da Sy Association of Metal Forging is formed by 80% of the village's families who master the craft confectioning farming and household tools to be used not only in Vietnam but in Laos, Cambodia, Germany, France and the US. The Da Sy Village is now part of the Hanoi's Traditional Craft Development Planning to ensure this tradition is preserved and shared beyond Vietnamese boundaries.
A short story
Grooves branch out all over, they form patches of messy patterns resembling those of a Mikado game. The hardened hands, sprinkled by sun kisses along the years or traces of that grease he likes to bathe his tools in, make their way in the inner of the metallic communist-red toolbox seating on the floor next to him. That faithful companion in every single tinkering project he has invented for himself after retirement. Agh! he sighs. It is Sunday morning and the frustration he keeps for himself from not finding what he's looking for, starts to speak for itself as church bells calling for mass waking up the neighbourhood and making the dogs bark.
Each tool is out now. They lay one next to the other in scary OCD arrangement on the grass. There is a long silence as he wipes the sweat from his forehead with the kerchief that have been hanging loosely in the back pocket of his Dockers Bermuda shorts and straightens his white cotton tank top as if part of a ritual. He stands up slowly straightening his back to the 75° his spine is still able to reach, only to contemplate for a few minutes the fully bloomed Ixora tree in front of him. He reaches the crown with his right hand, holding tightly a rebel branch that grew too much compared to the others and on the left hand, timidly shining, the turquoise scissor mouth wide open ready to complete the task. He hesitates.
Each tool is out now. They lay one next to the other in scary OCD arrangement on the grass. There is a long silence as he wipes the sweat from his forehead with the kerchief that have been hanging loosely in the back pocket of his Dockers Bermuda shorts and straightens his white cotton tank top as if part of a ritual. He stands up slowly straightening his back to the 75° his spine is still able to reach, only to contemplate for a few minutes the fully bloomed Ixora tree in front of him. He reaches the crown with his right hand, holding tightly a rebel branch that grew too much compared to the others and on the left hand, timidly shining, the turquoise scissor mouth wide open ready to complete the task. He hesitates.
