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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.

Lameul 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 develops injection molding pin machines.

1950

1960

Folch starts quenching and tempering steel pins.

Folch starts building its own pins mahines.

1962

1970

Folch makes high tempered carbon steel pins.

Jordi Folch Marti Becomes the Company CEO.

1980

Folch produces stainless steel, dipped head pins.

Folch starts of manufacture pins pear and plastic head .

2005

2007

Soho Prospecting develops ours first FOLCH Website.

Jordi Folch Marti retires, Folch president since 1980.

2010

2011

Folch launches Pins Art brand and collections.

Folch acquires high-efficiency packing equipment.

2015

2021

Folch starts his world pins route adventure with the website update.

Read about Folch's Company History

Best Sellers

AAN456525 400 pins

9.98 €

AAN305007 50g.

5.34 €

AIN264025 400 u./9.6g (aprox.)

8.62 €

AAN346008 50g. foam

3.31 €

AAN305006 25g

3.99 €

APS305932 200 pins

6.59 €

ACV497829 100 pins

9.25 €

AIN384025 400 pins

12.56 €

AAN407007 50 g

5.86 €

AIN324032 200 u.

6.05 €

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

AAP346005 200u SILVER pins

13.51 €

ESF512001 500g 50x1.20mm

24.63 €

ACV4978B5 50 pins White head

6.98 €

ACV4978A5 50 pins Yellow head

6.98 €

ACV4978N5 50 pins Black head

6.98 €

ALD408000 1 kg Nº4 40x0.80mm

75.97 €

IBBR2320 1.000 Brown bulb safety pins

44.07 €

IBBR23 Brown Bulb safety pins 23mm

IBT2320 1.000 turquoise bulb safety pins

44.07 €

IBT23 Turquoise Bulb safety pins 23mm

Latest blog posts

58 Concurso Nacional de Vestidos de Papel

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Mollerussa 17 de Diciembre de 2022: Folch premió al ganador de la categoría Emergentes con un costurero con ALFILERES PARA PARAR UN TREN, el título del trabajo ganador era NALA LLEONA DE DÉU

The travelling pin of Folch, Pin Factory in Spain since 1924, is the dressmaker pin n.8 JABALÍ brand. Best seller pin par excellence, a globetrotter pin that has triumphed in every corner, starting in Spain and around the World.

New collection ENTOPINS

Friday, May 21, 2021

New collection ENTOPINS / We are in the process of launching our SAN JORGE branded Entopins range, which will include new qualities based upon our experience of pin manufacturing.