{"id":1763,"date":"2014-04-28T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2014-04-28T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:00:57","slug":"seven-fun-facts-about-needles-and-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/28\/seven-fun-facts-about-needles-and-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? Seven Fun Facts About Needles And Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Didier Vrac, President of Bohin France, gave a lecture on the history of needles and pins during Road 2014. Part of Road\u2019s new $5.00 Lecture Series offering informative sessions in a classroom setting, Mr. Vrac spoke to a room full of interested guests, giving them fun facts of these sewing essentials. Here are some of interesting tidbits he shared:<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/did-you-know-seven-fun-facts-about-needles-and-piins\/attachment\/_i4c3203pg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1766\" alt=\"_i4c3203pg\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3203pg.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What were the first needles and pins made of? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bones and ivory.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Which country first used steel in making pins and needles? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">China. From there, steel was used in Arabia, then Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When were pins used for more than just sewing?<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> In the 1500\u2019s, ornate pins were given to women as gifts.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/did-you-know-seven-fun-facts-about-needles-and-piins\/attachment\/_i4c3190pg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1765\" alt=\"_i4c3190pg\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3190pg.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What great world event did pin manufacturing play a large role in? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Industrial Revolution as well as the unionization of factory workers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What are some of the specialty needles designed for? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Leather working, quilting, embroidery, and clothing manufacturing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Where does Bohin France get the glass for their pin heads? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Murano (Venezia), Italy<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What makes Bohin needles and pins different from other brands regarding shape and sharpness? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bohin\u2019s fine pins are made from piano chord wire which is known for retaining its shape when it is flinged. The lasting sharpness of Bohin\u2019s pins and needles is due to their being polished individually on antique machines.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/did-you-know-seven-fun-facts-about-needles-and-piins\/attachment\/_i4c3186pg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1764\" alt=\"_i4c3186pg\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3186pg.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Who knew there was so much to learn about needles and pins!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,22,27,32],"tags":[179,180,330,561,800,819,916],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-blog","category-road-2014","category-road-to-california","tag-bohin-factory","tag-bohin-france","tag-didier-vrac","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-murano-italy","tag-needles","tag-pins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/i4c3203pg.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}