Appliqué, Patchwork & Boutis needles

When you know how many operations it takes to make a quality sewing needle, you can appreciate that the price is totally justified. No less than eleven stages of production are necessary: dressing, which involves heating the steel wire to straigten it; cutting followed by another heat treatment; grinding to make the point; cleaning; stamping to give it a first form; piercing the eye; different processes of filing to obtain the final form; tempering and polishing. All that without counting the packaging.