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Pin Making Timeline

Thorns were used as “pins” for securing cloth.

5000 BC

27 BC

The Romans use fancy heads pins made of Bronze.

The anglo saxons pins, differenced by the head and the shaft.

476

793

The vikings used dress pins for fastening cloaks.

The utilitzation of straight pin to distinguish social class.

1000

1200

The wound wire headed pins become popular.

The french pins industry were the most important in Europe.

1300

1400

Start of wire redrawing, when metal die was invented.

The end of pin making in monasteries.

1534

1600

The manufacture of pins by hand had 18 operations.

Gloucester and Bristol center of the pin industry development.

1626

1760

Laigle in the french Normandie is the principal pin making area.

The first book about pins published by M de Reaumur.

1761

1776

“Division of labor” in Wealth of Nations with pin-making.

Lemuel Wright patents the first successful pin machine.

1824

1840

The pin manufacturing capital in the world was Birmingham.

The industrial revolution the start of automatic manufacturing.

1845

1850

From workshops to factories, from artisans to systems.

Pedro Folch Torne builds Folch Pin Factory.

1924

1926

Folch registers brand names Jabali and San Jorge.

Folch buys a BÜNDGENS M.05 machine in Aachen

1960

Folch starts quenching and tempering steel pins.

Folch starts building its own pins mahines.

1962

1980

Jordi Folch Marti Becomes the Company CEO.

Folch produces stainless steel pins.

1980

1997

Folch’s first corporate website.

Folch buys a JOUSHEN machine.

1998

1999

First Handarbeit & Hobby fair in Cologne

Folch starts of manufacture dipped head and plastic head pins.

2005

2007

Soho Prospecting develops ours first FOLCH Shop online.

Jordi Folch Marti retires. The new CEO is Josep M. Folch.

2010

2011

Folch launches Pins Art brand and collections.

Folch acquires high-efficiency packing equipment.

2015

2024

Folch 100th Anniversary

New production of Tape measures and Thimbles

2025

Read about Folch's Company History

Best Sellers

AAN456525 400 pins

10.98 €

AAN305007 50g.

5.87 €

AIN264025 400 u./9.6g (aprox.)

8.96 €

AAN305006 25g

4.39 €

AAN346007 50 gr.

3.47 €

AAN346008 50g. foam

3.64 €

APS305932 200 pins

6.85 €

AAN305003 100g

8.40 €

AIN324032 200 u.

6.29 €

AIN405932 200 pins

7.30 €

Folch Buyer's Guide

Folch Buyer's Guide Welcome to the Pin Factory. Here you have a guide to help you to buy in folch.com shop.

Read Buyer Guide here

New products

QF01O34

18.50 €

QF05I38 38x0.59

17.10 €

QF06I22 22x0.59

9.50 €

QF05L18 18x0.65

13.80 €

QF05L22 22x0.70

13.00 €

IBSC2305 50 assorted bulb safety pins

3.40 €

IPN343605 36 safety pins

4.15 €

ALP106500 1kg 20x0.65

97.56 €

ALP1065 Brass pins 20x0.65

ALP146000 1 kg 14x0.60mm

108.62 €

Latest blog posts

Thank you for your visit

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Another year present in the largest and most international trade fair for this industry in Europe.

Folch in Handarbeit & Hobby 2025

Monday, February 03, 2025

Folch will be in the Handarbeit & Hobby, International Trade Fair for knitting, embroidery, needlework and handicrafts. Handarbeit & Hobby is well known as the largest and most international trade fair for this industry in Europe.

Metalúrgica Folch, un siglo de excelencia y tradición

Monday, July 15, 2024

Artículo de la revista FORNITURAS nº207 ABRIL-JUNIO 2024
"La apasionante historia de una empresa que se ha ganado con creces su buena imagen, reputación y prestigio."