Art Nouveau Pewter Chatelaine

Vintage-style pewter Art Nouveau scissor chatelaine sheath featuring flowing floral relief designs on a silver-toned metal chain
Vintage-style pewter Art Nouveau scissor chatelaine sheath featuring flowing floral relief designs on a silver-toned metal chain
Vintage-style pewter Art Nouveau scissor chatelaine sheath featuring flowing floral relief designs on a silver-toned metal chain

Art Nouveau Pewter Chatelaine

Keep your scissors where you can find them. The Art Nouveau Pewter Chatelaine is a 30 inch chain worn to hold small sewing tools and it arrives with a pair of scissors included.

The Art Nouveau Chatelaine is worn on a chain that fastens easily, keeping small sewing tools to hand instead of buried in a basket. It suits beginners and professionals alike and it makes a thoughtful present for anyone who sews or does craft work.

Chatelaines were worn by housekeepers in the 19th century and by wealthier women as watch chains. The name comes from the French chatelaine and it described a device that carried every tool the woman of the house might need in a day. Similar jewellery goes back much further. Roman women wore chatelaines holding ear scoops, nail cleaners and tweezers and women in Roman Britain wore brooches with toilet sets hanging from them.

Browse our other pewter chatelaines.

  • Specification
    • Chain is 30 inches in length
    • Weighs 45g
    • Chain fastens easily
    • Comes complete with a pair of scissors
    • Gift for sewing and craft novices and professionals
Product code: 8681
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A Pewter Maker picking up an Antique Mould

A E Williams (Est 1779) Ltd is one of Britain's oldest pewter makers, still run by the family that founded it nearly 250 years ago. 


The story began when Thomas Williams started a small workshop making flatware and dishes from his home on the Welsh border, and from there the craft passed down through eight generations of the same family, all the way to Rebecca Johnson, who joined the business in 2015. 


Today we're based at our workshop in Digbeth, Birmingham, where we've been since the early 1970s.

OUR STORY
Pouring molten pewter into a bronze mould

We work from a collection of over 1,500 antique bronze moulds, some of which are centuries old. Many were made by hand long before machine tooling existed, and we still use them today, alongside moulds and skills of our own, to produce pieces with the kind of character that mass production simply can't replicate.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

At A E Williams, the materials we work with have been chosen over nearly 250 years of making things properly. Pewter sits at the heart of everything we do, but we also work with slate, glass, leather, and wood — each selected because it brings something the others can't: a different feel, a different occasion, a different kind of beauty.

Whatever you're looking for, every material we use is chosen to last, and to look better for it.

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