How did the “pin for the dress” turn into a rebellious accessory and why is the pin invented by the American called English? Our brief historical digression is about the "safety pin."
What is a safety pin?
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Safety pin, or safety pin, is a device that combines a pin with a pointed tip, a cap that closes that tip, and a spring that makes it easier to unfasten and fasten. In fact, it is a pin "closed in a ring." This "loopback" allows you to use a safety pin both as a regular pin (for example, to pierce something, hold the layers of fabric together), and as a fixing fastener. In addition, the tip of the safety pin in the buttoned state is securely hidden under the cap, which protects against accidental injections - for this the pin is called safe.
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Today, a pin is used in sewing - for example, it is convenient to insert a lace or elastic braid into a drawstring, in knitting, removing loops on it. With a pin they attach something to the clothes, fasten the edges. Also, a safety pin acts as a clasp of brooches, badges, as a decoration and so on. Pins are made in different shapes, sizes, from different metals and not only ...
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How did the safety pin and its name appear?
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Clasps, arranged on the principle of a modern safety pin, were used thousands of years ago - they, for example, were worn off with cloaks and cloaks. The official “birthday” of the safety pin is April 10, 1849. It was then that the US Patent Office granted a patent for an invention called the “dress pin”. The patent was given to an American by Walter Hunt - but the device he invented from a piece of metal wire today we know not as an American, but as an English pin.
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The fact is that Hunt, having received his $ 400 for a patent, did not take too much care to promote his invention. And in the fall of that year, the British Charles Rowley, the owner of the company for the production of window fittings, patented the same device at home in the UK. Rowley widely advertised the pin: it turned out that the world knew about it just like English.
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How to use and use the pin?
The pin was used in needlework, for quick repair of things, to pin something on clothes, even for fastening diapers to babies. At some point, the pin acquired a mystical function - it is pinned to clothes as a remedy for the evil eye. And in the 50s of the twentieth century, she also became a symbol of rebellion and a kind of avant-garde accessory: pins began to decorate not only clothes, but also use them as a piercing.
Today, inventive needlewomen and needlewomen make bracelets, necklaces, belts from pins, decorate them with clothes and so on.Read more about interesting and unusual ways to use pins here.
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