0 special scissors with V-shaped teeth along the blades, used to make V-shaped lines along the edges of cloth, so that threads do not easily come out
Pinking shears are designed to cut cloth or paper with a zigzag edge, to lessen fraying.
Traditional home sewing techniques for finishing plain seams include trimming with pinking shears, oversewing with a zig-zag stitch, and hand or machine overcasting.
Pinking shears have a utilitarian function for cutting woven cloth.
Woven fabric cloth usually frays at the edges, unless techniques are used to counter it, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming.
One of the primary early uses of pinking shears was the formation of decorative edging for patchwork quilting squares.
As the carnation has scalloped, or pinked, edges to its petals, pinking shears can be thought to produce an edge similar to the flower.
