Workshop
6 min
The round knife is older than the house
On the tools we use every day and the ones we have never replaced.
The round knife on the cutting bench was made in 1911. It came with the first maker, who came with the building, and it has been sharpened so many times the blade is half the width it started.
Most of our tools are like that. Pricking irons, edge bevellers and the creasing iron that draws the line beside every stitch. We replace what breaks and keep what doesn’t.
The newest tool in the workshop is the 1968 sewing machine, which we use only for long seams. Everything that takes weight is stitched by hand.
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Workshop
6 min
The round knife is older than the house
On the tools we use every day and the ones we have never replaced.