LANCE RULERS

DESIGNERS RULE.

Serious measuring instruments for people turning ideas into patterns, drawings, parts, layouts, and built work. Designed in the USA. Made in Korea.

Measure seriously. Make freely.
Find your ruler Explore the Tool Wall Configure an engraved rule →
25 INSTRUMENTS 7 FAMILIES 136 CONFIGURATIONS 6″ – 144″
SHARED ZERO — FOUR REAL STRAIGHT EDGES, TO SCALE
STRAIGHT EDGE — INCH · 6″–144″
STRAIGHT EDGE — INCH · 6″–144″
STRAIGHT EDGE — INCH + CM
STRAIGHT EDGE — INCH + CM
SLIP-RESISTANT — CORK BACKED
SLIP-RESISTANT — CORK BACKED
STRAIGHT EDGE — METRIC
STRAIGHT EDGE — METRIC
SHOP BY WHAT THE WORK REQUIRES EACH ROUTE LANDS IN THE RIGHT FAMILY SELECTOR
Draw a straight line Establish a right angle Shape a pattern curve Construct a fixed angle Find the center Work in inch and metric Configure a fixed bench rule Lay out print measurements

Seven families.
One exact world.

Open the Tool Wall →
01 Straight edges 4 INSTRUMENTS · 6″–144″ · INCH / METRIC / BOTH The long, true line → 02 T-squares 3 INSTRUMENTS · HUNG FROM THE RAIL 03 L-squares 2 INSTRUMENTS · ONE EXACT CORNER 04 Curves 2 INSTRUMENTS · FRENCH + HIP 05 Triangles 2 INSTRUMENTS · 30/60/90 + 45/45/90 06 Specialists 3 INSTRUMENTS · CUFF / CENTER / PICA RULER WIDTH = CUFF DEPTH ZERO AT CENTER AGATE + PICA SCALES 07 Black engraved 9 INSTRUMENTS · 9 ORIENTATIONS · RESOLVED IN THE LAB

Six ways an instrument can be exact.

FEATURED FOR RANGE — NOT RANKED
01 · RULE ONE SPAN Aluminum Straight Edge Ruler — Inch 11 CONFIGURATIONS · FROM $3.30 Choose your configuration → 02 · ESTABLISH PERPENDICULAR Heavy-Duty Aluminum T-Square 7 CONFIGURATIONS · FROM $29.93 Choose your configuration → 03 · CONSTRUCT FROM A CORNER Aluminum L-Square 4 CONFIGURATIONS · FROM $9.50 Choose your configuration → 06 · FIND THE CENTER Aluminum Center-Finding Ruler 6 CONFIGURATIONS · FROM $3.45 Choose your configuration → 04 · SHAPE THE TRANSITION Aluminum French Curve Ruler 4 CONFIGURATIONS · FROM $8.50 Choose your configuration → 07 · CONFIGURE THE READING Black Engraved Orientation System UNIT · EDGE · DIRECTION · LENGTH — RESOLVED FROM WHERE YOU STAND Configure →
ONE WORKING ENVIRONMENT AT A TIME — ASSEMBLED FROM REAL CONFIGURATIONS

Built for the work in front of you.

Working sets assembled from the wall — each one a complete bench, not a bundle. Every tool is sold on its own.

Six inches to twelve feet — to scale.

EVERY BAR = TRUE RELATIVE LENGTH · SCROLL →
0″ 12″ 24″ 36″ 48″ 60″ 72″ 84″ 96″ 108″ 120″ 132″ 144″
FAMILY 07 — BLACK ENGRAVED

The Orientation Lab

Stand at the bench, set the working edge, choose which way the numbers climb — and the Lab resolves the exact engraved rule for how you work.

Configure your rule
THREE QUESTIONS, ONE MATCH

Find your ruler

Say what you make, what line you need, and one constraint — and watch twenty-five candidates narrow to yours.

Marking & cutting garmentsDrafting & technical drawingPrint & publication layoutMachine-shop & bench workCutting & inking against an edgeCentering & layout
Start the Finder
AT WORK

Every idea needs a line it can trust.

Every pattern, drawing, layout, and cut begins with a decision about distance, angle, scale, or curve. Lance designs instruments for those decisions — tools specific enough for professional work and expressive enough to belong in a creative practice.

DESIGNED IN THE USA · MADE IN KOREA

DROP: HANDS PULLING A BLADE ALONG A STRAIGHT EDGE
DROP: HIP CURVE ON PATTERN PAPER, PENCIL MID-LINE
CARRY LANCE — FOR RETAILERS, DISTRIBUTORS & CAMPUS STORES

Carry the tools designers choose with confidence.

Lance gives retailers a coherent system of purpose-designed rulers, clear product-family logic, exact product identity, and the content required to help customers select the right instrument.

Build your Lance assortment 25 INSTRUMENTS · 7 FAMILIES · 136 CONFIGURATIONS · ONE COHERENT WALL
LANCE PRO — PROFESSIONAL, EDUCATION & GOVERNMENT PURCHASING
Equipping a classroom, production floor, or public agency?
Volume pricing on eligible configurations · formal quotes · a Merrow company, established 1838.
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LANCE INSTRUMENT INTELLIGENCE

DESIGNERS RULE.

Serious measuring instruments for people turning ideas into patterns, drawings, parts, layouts, and built work. Designed in the USA. Made in Korea.

DESIGNERS RULE.

Measure seriously. Make freely.

Serious measuring instruments for people turning ideas into patterns, drawings, parts, layouts, and built work. Designed in the USA. Made in Korea.

Every idea needs a line it can trust.

Designed in the USA. Made in Korea.

Every pattern, drawing, layout, and cut begins with a decision about distance, angle, scale, or curve. Lance designs instruments for those decisions—tools specific enough for professional work and expressive enough to belong in a creative practice.

Start with the work

Choose the ruler by the line or decision it must control. Then resolve geometry, unit system, calibrated edge, reading direction, backing, scale, and working size.

The Tool Wall

Explore every Lance product through seven working families: T-squares, triangles, straight edges, curves, L-squares, specialty rulers, and black engraved rulers.

Built for serious creative and technical work

Lance serves individual designers and makers, educators and students, studios and technical teams, institutional buyers, and retailers building a more useful measuring-tool assortment.

  • Fashion designers and patternmakers
  • Drafters, architects, and technical designers
  • Industrial designers, engineers, and fabricators
  • Print, publication, and specialist-layout practitioners
  • Teachers, students, and design schools
  • Studios, workrooms, factories, and production teams
  • Federal, state, and municipal buyers
  • Retail buyers, distributors, and campus stores
  • Creative generalists seeking the correct instrument

DIRECT ANSWERS

Questions people ask before choosing

What are Lance rulers?

Lance rulers are purpose-designed measuring, drafting, patternmaking, layout, and specialty instruments organized by geometry, calibration, scale, orientation, and task.

Who are Lance rulers for?

Lance serves designers, patternmakers, drafters, architects, engineers, fabricators, print specialists, educators, students, studios, and technical teams.

Where are Lance rulers designed and made?

Lance rulers are designed in the USA and made in Korea.

How do I choose a Lance ruler?

Start with the work, then choose the geometry, unit system, calibrated edge, reading direction, backing, scale, and size required by that task.

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