Sewing Design Pewter Chatelaine

Vintage-style pewter scissor chatelaine sheath featuring embossed sewing motifs of scissors, a thimble, and a thread spool on a silver-toned chain
Vintage-style pewter scissor chatelaine sheath featuring embossed sewing motifs of scissors, a thimble, and a thread spool on a silver-toned chain
Vintage-style pewter scissor chatelaine sheath featuring embossed sewing motifs of scissors, a thimble, and a thread spool on a silver-toned chain

Sewing Design Pewter Chatelaine

Carry the tools of the trade where a seamstress has always carried them. The Sewing Design Pewter Chatelaine works small sewing motifs into the pendant, hanging at the waist on a 30-inch chain.

Handmade at our Birmingham pewter workshop in some of the finest British Pewter, it weighs around 45g and fastens easily, with a small pair of scissors hanging ready on the chain. A gift for sewers and crafters of every level, for an apprentice tailor, for Mother's Day or for a retirement spent at the sewing table.

A chatelaine is one of the oldest pieces of practical jewellery in use, a chain worn at the waist that held a housekeeper's daily tools: scissors, thimbles, keys, sometimes a watch. The name comes from the French châtelaine, the mistress of a castle, with versions going back to Roman Britain. The nineteenth-century housekeeper would not have left her bedroom without one. The sewing-themed chatelaine is the version made for the seamstress.

Browse the full range of pewter chatelaines.

  • Specification
    • Handmade in our Birmingham workshop from some of the finest British Pewter
    • Sewing-themed design with 30-inch chain
    • Comes complete with a small pair of scissors
    • Fastens easily for everyday wear
    • Weighs approx. 45g
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Vintage-style pewter scissor chatelaine sheath featuring embossed sewing motifs of scissors, a thimble, and a thread spool on a silver-toned chain

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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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