Editing Scissors (section)

===Early manufacture===
The [[Zhang Xiaoquan|Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Company]] in Hangzhou, China, has been manufacturing scissors since 1663.<ref name="Sudworth">{{cite news|last1=Sudworth|first1=John|title=The scissor-maker that has cut through Chinese history|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-22160739|work=BBC News|date=2013-04-22|access-date=2018-07-21|archive-date=2018-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505022602/http://www.bbc.com/news/business-22160739|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pivoted scissors were not manufactured in large numbers until 1761, when [[Robert Hinchliffe]] of [[Sheffield]] produced the first pair of modern-day scissors made of hardened and polished [[steel casting|cast steel]]. His major challenge was to form the bows; first, he made them solid, then drilled a hole, and then filed away metal to make this large enough to admit the user's fingers. This process was laborious, and apparently Hinchliffe improved upon it in order to increase production. Hinchliffe lived in Cheney Square (now the site of [[Sheffield Town Hall#Previous buildings|Sheffield Town Hall]]), and set up a sign identifying himself as a "fine scissor manufacturer". He achieved strong sales in London and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/sheffieldineigh00leadgoog#page/n76/mode/2up/search/Hinchcliffe |title=[Reminiscences of] Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century |pages=69–70 |date=1901 |publisher=The Sheffield Independent Press Limited |place=Sheffield |first=Robert Eadon |last=Leader }}</ref>