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Wholesale Safety Pins has the high-quality safety pins you are looking for. We know that safety pins have a wide variety of different uses. See purchase options for safety pins
Wholesale Safety Pins has premium non-reflective pins for special needs for costumes, television performers, actors, law enforcement and tactical uses. Click for black safety pins
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T-pins can be used for many different purposes and a wide variety of fields and occupations have uses for the t-pins that are evolving. See purchase options for T-Pins
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Pear Shaped Pins are the newest pin for hanging tags, knitting stitch markers, sewing clothing, and DIY craft Making needs. See purchase options for Bulk Pear Shaped safety pins
Kiltie Pins, as the name implies are used not only for holding up kilts, but hanging price tags, awards, crafting, horse blankets, used as kaffer pins. See purchase options for kiltie pins
For mesh bags, and ideal for laundry bags to keep them closed and prevent clothes from falling out.See purchase options for laundry bag / net pins
From bank pins, which are used in heavy fabrics, to our medium-gauge dress pins, even lighter pins for satins and silks.See purchase options for bank / dress maker pins
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Lance Precision Rulers are precision tools, manufactured from hardened, aerospace aluminum with a clear, anodized, scratch-resistant finish. See purchase options for about rulers
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Wrestling has become a popular sport at high schools and colleges all over the United States and around the world. WholesaleSafetyPins.com has found that large safety pins are now being used widely throughout the sport as medals of sort in recognition of a wrestler pinning his opponent. We have all of the styles and sizes of safety pins your school or wrestling organization may need to honor and recognize these promising athletes.
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We carry a large assortment of safety pin sizes
Safety Pin History: It’s Lots More Interesting Than You Would Think!
So, who came up with the great idea of the safety pin anyway? Well, the answer is lots of people. There have been versions of safety pins for thousands and thousands of years . . . 12,000 years, to be exact. Early men and women of the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age used straight pieces of bone, wood or shell to hold their clothes together and to decorate themselves and their homes. These developed into our modern safety pins.
Safety Pin History
Jump ahead to the 14th and 13th century BC, and the Ancient Greek Myceneans created the fibula, the precursor to the safety pin, to secure their tunics and for decoration. Most safety pins were made of bronze or iron, some safety pins were decorated with jewels, coral, bone or enamel.
The beginning of the 1st century AD ushered great developments in the world of the fibula, and safety pin design refinements continued through Medieval Europe. The wealthy had fibulae made of silver, gold, brass or ivory, while the poor had wooden skewers.
Modern Safety Pin History
The modern safety pin was finally invented by Walter Hunt, an American mechanic and prolific inventor, in 1849. Legend has it that Walter was struggling financially. As he worried about paying a $15 debt back to a friend, he twisted a piece of wire in his hands. Suddenly, he realized that when it was coiled and clasped on itself, it could be opened and shut repeatedly.
Keeping your fingers safe
In one evening, Walter Hunt sketched designs and created a prototype, then he applied for a patent on April 10, 1849. Hunt called it a safety pin because he claimed it would keep fingers safe.
Safety Pin Inventor Walter Hunt
Walter Hunt also invented the first lockstitch sewing machine, a Winchester repeating rifle precursor, artificial stone, ice plough, fountain pen and streetcar bell. He sold many of his patents for little money, lived modestly and received little recognition for his amazing inventions.
Safety Pin Inventor Sells His Patent
Walter Hunt sold his safety pin patent to WR Grace and Company for $400 and, happily, was able to repay the debt to his friend.
Learn more about Safety Pins with the links below:
“A Visual History of the Safety Pin.” The Museum of Everyday Life. http://museumofeverydaylife.org/exhibitions-collections/current-exhibitions/a-visualhistory-of-the-safety-pin
Bellis, Mary. “The Invention of the Safety Pin,” ThoughtCo. 3 July 2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/walter-hunt-profile-1991916
“Safety Pin.” Wikipedia. 23 Sept 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_pin
“Safety Pin Inventor Walter Hunt.” National Inventor’s Hall of Fame. 2002. https://www.invent.org/inductees/walter-hunt. Accessed 24 Sept 2019
“Safety Pin Inventor Walter Hunt.” Wikipedia. 4 Jan 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hunt_(inventor)
Safety Pin Inventor Walter Hunt
Safety Pin Patent
Care to see what Walter Hunt’s original patent #6281 looks like? Click here.
Safety Pins Worldwide
“Its simplicity, elegance and household presence made it not only an item of utility, but also of culture and tradition. In some places in India, for example, safety pins and sewing needles are kept for generations and passed from mother to daughter. In the Ukraine it is still a practice today to pin safety pins to the inside of a child’s clothing, to ward off evil spirits. In many European countries, finding a safety pin is good luck, and a portent of good fortune.”
Attribution: Paul van Krimpen [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)]
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