Free visit of the Bohin manufacture

Name: Visite libre de la manufacture Bohin
Start: 2022-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Les ateliers Bohin

Visit of production workshops, temporary exhibition and museum

16 - 18 septembre 2022Passé

J.-M. Mandon

The Bohin Manufacture offers a tour of the production workshops of Bohin France, the latest French manufacturer of sewing needles, safety pins and glass-headed pins. Continue your visit in the temporary exhibition and contemporary museum on historical and industrial themes.
Workers don’t work weekends.

À propos du lieu

Les ateliers Bohin

1 le bourg, 61300 Saint-Sulpice-sur-Risle

Orne
Normandie

In search of an unusual and unique(only) experience(experiment)? Discover an original manufacturing thanks to the employees of the last factory of needles and of pins, always active! At the edge of Risle, Bohin France perpetuates tradition épinglière and aiguillière its region for 182 years. Shop window(Showcase) of the know-how French and rich in an exciting history(story), she(it) opens her(its) doors to the general public. Over 2000 m ², travel(browse) workshops(studios) in functioning of Bohin France where, just before your eyes, the workers give birth(rise) to the sewing needle, the pin in glass head and the safety pin. An ancestral know-how realised on competitive and old(former) machines, where the human being has a key role. The visit of factory continues by a surprising contemporary museum in the original direction(fabrication) (small metallurgy, local and prickly history(story), jobs(businesses) by the needle, artists of exception, advertisements BOHIN, atypical founder). Jobs(Businesses) and passions become confused there: High - Sewing, patchwork, embroidery, pinks Big(Great) shop. Programme of activities (and notebooks of games(sets) for the children).