It's handy to have a good pair of scissors when you are rug hooking or embroidering. The bent handle is comfortable to use and it means you cut parallel to the backing fabric. You are less likely to cut into the backing fabric that way. These have a sharp point.

The scissors have been Ice Tempered. To make a steel hard, it has to be heat treated. With Stainless steel that means heating the steel above 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature the structure of the material is at its optimum. To preserve this structure, the steel is cooled rapidly (quenched) and tempered at about 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Now you have a pretty good hardness and flexibility on your shear except that the chromium in the steel will not permit a long lasting cutting edge. To make the cutting edge last longer, the steel is subjected to about 120 degrees below zero; in other words, ice-tempered.

A pair of scissors weighs 38 grams or 1.34 ounces. They measure 14.6 cm or 5 3/4 inches in length.