MANY CRAFT SCISSORS LOOK LIKE BIRDS?

Why do so many craft scissors look like birds? It's not just any bird, it is a stork. Now, when I put these on my Secret Santa wishlist two years ago, I had no idea that this was the story. I just thought they were cute. But I've recently come to learn back to 19th century midwifery care, and midwives would use stork-shaped umbilical clamps in their practices. They weren't sharp, they were just used for clamping. And the beaks were longer, long and dull. I'll insert some photos here. Some of them even had little stork bellies when you opened them up, which is really cute. And so the story goes. Again, I'm sure some embellishing goes that since childbirth takes a long time, there can be a lot of sitting around while you're waiting for delivery. That midwives would often bring little projects with them to their practice while they're waiting. So sewing or embroidery, small to do while they wait. And so as the tools kind of developed, they sort of just iterated on each other and they developed these cute little stork embroidery scissors as sort of an homage to the clamps that they were using. Now, I've seen some claims that the tools were used interchangeably. I certainly hope that's not the case. It's kind of difficult to find any concrete evidence whether or not that actually happened, but they were just inspired by each other. But as someone who is fascinated by all things pregnancy and birth, and who loves knitting and other needlework style hobbies, I just thought that's a really cool association and history. Story.