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Gifts and Gift Sets

Gifts and Gift Sets

Whether you’re looking for a gift for a wedding housewarming, anniversary or birthday – we have plenty of options available to ensure you arrive with the perfect present made to last a lifetime.

 

We’ve put together our top picks below.

Full House Gift Set

Our Full House Gift Set is the perfect present for any newly-wed couple as they begin their life together or an obvious choice for a housewarming gift.

 

Featuring five of our most popular pairs of scissors, all designed and manufactured to last a lifetime, we purposely created this gift set to ensure there’s a pair of scissors suited to a wide range of cutting jobs required round the house.

 

The Full House Gift Set includes:

  • Classic Kitchen Scissors
  • Garden Pruners
  • DIY Shears
  • 9″ Black Paper Scissors
  • Big Bow Embroidery Scissors

 

The Full House Gift Set will arrive packaged in our Signature Whiteley Presentation Box and is available with bespoke laser engraving for an added special touch.

Noir Gift Set

Our Noir Gift Set is the definition of sleek and sophisticated. Featuring three super glossy sewing essentials, it’s sure to go down a treat with any sewer, dressmaker or crafter.

 

The Noir Gift Set features:

  • 6″ Household Scissors
  • 9″ Sewing Sidebent Scissors
  • Threadclips

 

The ultra opaque, ultra shiny coating not only offers a striking appearance but also provides super-tough protection, enhancing the longevity of your scissors, shears and threadclips.

 

The Noir Gift Set will arrive packaged in our Signature Whiteley Presentation Box and is available with bespoke laser engraving for an added special touch.

EXO Gold Gift Set

Our EXO Gold Gift Set is the ultimate gift set for anyone who enjoys sewing, tailoring and dressmaking.

 

Featuring:

  • EXO Gold Shears
  • EXO Leather Sheath
  • Gold Embroidery Scissors

 

Our EXOs are the highest professional-quality shear you can buy, designed to fit comfortably in the hand while delivering a powerful cut. EXO Gold are manufactured from 100% surgical-grade stainless steel, with state-of-the-art investment-cast handles, and industrial grade precision ground blades, and made by our master craftsmen at our facility in Sheffield, using techniques and skills developed since 1760.

 

The gold finish is a tough Titanium Nitride ceramic coating, often used to extend the life of drill bits, to ensure your EXOs have extra durability. Featuring our signature ‘bolt’ fixing, they allow for a speedy and smooth ‘pick up’ and ‘put down’ motion – as well as adding an eye-catching styling cue.

 

Our EXO Gold Gift set will arrive packaged in our Signature Whiteley Presentation Box and is available with bespoke laser engraving for an added special touch.

Wilkinson Glide Gift Set

Our Wilkinson Glide Gift Set brings together the light but incredibly tough and sharp Wilkinson Glide range.

 

Featuring:

  • 6″ Glide Sewing Scissors
  • 8.25″ Glide Dressmaking Shears / 8.25″ Glide General Purpose and DIY Shears
  • 10″ Dressmaking and Upholstery Shears / 10″ DIY Shears

 

Our Glide Range all feature Teflon-coated blades providing them with non-stick capabilities as well as being incredibly durable. Their lightweight, comfortable plastic handles can be picked up time and time again whilst still remaining comfortable to use. Particularly ideal for anyone who suffers with arthritis in the hand or struggles to lift larger scissors, but still wishes to use a larger shear for long cuts.

 

The Wilkinson Glide Gift Set will arrive packaged in our Signature Whiteley Presentation Box and is available with bespoke laser engraving for an added special touch.

Rose Gold and Gold Sewing Gift Sets

Our Rose Gold and Gold Sewing Gift Sets features our two spectacular sewing items – our 8″ Rose Gold sidebents and our Rose Gold embroidery scissor or our 8″ Gold Sewing Sidebents and our Gold Embroidery Scissors.

 

Our 8″ Rose Gold and Gold sidebent scissors are a premium fabric shear with a beautiful, plating. Ideal for crafters and professionals alike, our blades are designed to offer a unique corrosion protection on the inside meaning our sidebents will be a sewing kit staples for many years to come. Designed as a dedicated fabric shear, the Wilkinson Rose Gold and Gold sidebent scissors are ideal for all types of fabric and materials found in sewing, tailoring, upholstery, crafting and more.

 

Our popular embroidery scissors are now available in a stunning rose gold and gold plated finish. The perfect addition to your sewing box, they’re ideal for fine work as they’re small, precise, extremely sharp and protected by their plating.

 

Both Sewing Gift sets arrive in our signature William Whiteley gift box complete with bespoke foam. In addition, you are able to choose optional bespoke laser engraving for the 8″ sidebents, adding that final thoughtful touch for an extra special gift.

Black Paper Gift Set

Our famous Wilkinson Black Paper Scissors are available together as part of our Wilkinson Black Paper Gift Set.

 

Featuring our 7″ Black Paper Scissors with sharp points ideal for detailed pattern cutting, our 9″ Black Paper Scissors with long, sharp pointed blades ideal for cutting larger pieces of paper and finally our 10″ Paper Hanging Scissors which were traditionally used as wallpaper scissors so make a fantastic paper shear.

 

Available with optional bespoke laser engraving and packaged in our signature William Whiteley presentation box, the Wilkinson Black Paper Gift Set makes a fantastic gift for the crafter in your life, or for the person who seems to have everything!