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Last french manufacturer of needles in any kind and small metal articles, BOHIN FRANCE surfe on the wave of the creative leisures.
Visit at St Sulpice sur Risle - Normandy to see an enthralling factory, halfway between the craft industry and the large-scale industry.
(by Agnès Waendendries. Photos Joël Laiter).
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1/ Coppered steel wire Reels.
2/ Mixed with sawdust, the needles are brewed in wooden barrels.
3/ Manufacture of the glass headed pins.
4/ last days of the "basket" where are carried out "hardening".
5/ the packages in which the needles are locked up, will be swindled
during three weeks on the bench of polishing.
6/Manufacturing of the eye of the needle on a press.
7/Preparation of polishing, the needles in disorder are arranged on a
plate ribbed before being locked up in packages.
8/ Muddles of pins which the harrow will put in order before conditioning.
9/Ready to be packed up, the needles are pricked
on fabric or, like here, on paper.
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