Make hand folding easy

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Anyone who regularly folds paper and card will know the danger, and the incisive pain, of a paper cut or friction burn. Pain prevention lies with a simple, inexpensive, thimble like device, Fold-Ease, which sits on a finger tip and glides over paper and card with ease, producing professional creases time after time while averting injury.

The Fold-Ease is the invention of Rupert Evans, who came up with the idea in 2014. In 2015 Fold-Ease was nominated for a Hot Product Award at the international Craft and Hobby Association Mega Show in Anaheim, California, and in 2016 Rupert made it through the gruelling trials and vetting of the BBC's Dragon's Den to showcase the product on air.

Fold-Ease is admirably simple: a lightweight rubber thimble with two small rollers to do the folding and a gap at the end for long fingernails. In the UK it retails in a pack of two sizes (so that, effectively, one pack fits all) for just £3.99.

Rupert said, ‘The finger and thumb tip are just not designed to make decent creases over and over again. It is okay if you send a letter once in a blue moon but if you fold paper regularly, things quickly go wrong, maybe with the creases and often with health and safety. Paper cuts and friction burns sting like mad and anyone who's ever had such an injury will be pleased to find this low cost answer. The answer is Fold-Ease.’

He continued, ‘At work, many people still have to deal with high volumes of stationery. And if you have ever seen people coping with boxes of leaflets, newsletters and flyers, the value of Fold-Ease is unmistakable.’

But, is Fold-Ease essentially a glorified thimble? Rupert said, ‘Thimbles don't have rollers or produce perfect paper creases. And they don't have gaps for long fingernails. But yes, it looks like a thimble. And not only does it look like one, Fold-Ease is to paper users what thimbles are to people who sew. It has a place in every home and virtually every office.’