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Story | 12 December 2024

Sheffield Makes: Ernest Wright

Ernest Wright are a Sheffield based company focused on the production of supreme quality, handmade pairs of scissors and shears. The history of Ernest Wright reflects everything Sheffield Steel has become famous for, highly skilled craftsmen making supreme quality products.

 

In this episode of Sheffield Makes we visit Ernest Wright to follow the production of the Kutrite kitchen scissor, a complex design that's woven into Ernest Wright history.

The Kutrite pattern of flat kitchen scissors was designed by Philip Wright in the early sixties and produced till the eighties. After an absence of decades, the Kutrite model is proudly being produced in Sheffield once again.

 

See more from our Sheffield Makes series here

 

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