NIGIRIBASAMI SCISSORS - MINI SNIPS - NIWAKI
Traditional Japanese "NIGIRIBASAMI" scissors (Nigiri means "to squeeze," you use these scissors by squeezing them :)
For all precise cutting tasks, in the garden for trimming flowers and herbs, for floral art, ikebana, or bonsai.
Highly precise, useful for sewing, DIY, paper crafts, and in the kitchen.
Handcrafted in Japan.
- Dimensions: 105 x 13 x 12mm
- Blade: 35 mm
- High-quality stainless steel
Niwaki tools, with their simple and effective design, created to last, are renowned for their exceptional quality.
After studying sculpture in London, Jake Hobson went to Japan to investigate the Japanese relationship with nature and the environment around them.
Jake discovered that Japanese gardens were not just gardens. They were mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, and waterfalls. It was everything he loved; these gardens told stories and referenced real landscapes in Japan.
Niwaki literally means “garden tree”; it is the art of tree pruning, quite different from that of Bonsai, as the roots are not pruned. But Niwaki is much more than that. It implies a philosophy—that of the landscape, of recreating unique microcosms, the vision of a man and his connection to, his understanding of, and his learning from nature.
But all this was possible thanks to the use of tools that shared the same philosophy, created slowly, simply, by hand, by local master blacksmiths with exceptional expertise.
For Jake Hobson, every tool comprises three crucial elements:
- good material, primarily high-quality carbon steel
- good design, generally as simple as possible
- good craftsmanship, passed down from generation to generation.
Japanese tools skimp on none of these elements: You feel the quality of the craftsmanship as soon as you hold them in your hand; they simply and perfectly do the job for which they were designed, and they last, holding their edge for a long time, rewarding the user with years, decades, and even lifetimes of pleasure.