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
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
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