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Ice ivory or white gold, mammoth ivory with its pearly white colour abounds in both historical secrets and beauty. The permafrost releases these fossilized pachyderms, which disappeared 10,000 ago, from their sarcophagus of ice. Once ...

It is daybreak when the 4×4 Defender arrives on site. What site? The Brière marshes, obviously! An ancient forest, now converted to a vault. Habitually the Atelier JHP team probes, digs, removes top soil and ...

A reference in the artisan world, the bimonthly review Le Monde des Artisans relates the activity of French artisans and offers them a forum to express themselves. Geared towards professionals with traditional know-how, the newspaper ...

September 2021, this is the Morta extraction season: we take you aboard our Land Rover into the heart of the Brière marshes in search of the precious raw materials from which the handles of your ...

For Laurent Delahousse's program on France 2, the TV cameras follow Jean-Henri PAGNON and his team of cutlers in Brière to extract the Morta from its peat.

Excalibur, number 1 of magazines devoted to knives, published in the first half of 2021 an article entitled “In the shadow of Morta”. Fred Marchand, professional cutler, and Didier Teste, journalist, interview Jean-Henri Pagnon. Jean-Henri, ...

Morta knives are all the rage with the Dutch! The “Gentlemen’s Watch” article says that the Morta knife is the holy grail of cutlery and that all the stars on the planet are snatching them ...

STARS & MÉTIERS 2021 NATIONAL PRIZE: THE MORTA LEAVES THE WOODS FOR ATELIER JHP Good news! After 5,000 years spent buried in the peat of Brière, the Morta has finally left the woods. Like a ...

Jean-Henri PAGNON interviewed on the 1o'clock news. TF1 report on Morta knives to know everything about the fine team of JHP knifemakers and the Morta, wood from Brière.

Morta Success explained by Ouest France, a regional reference review. In this article in Ouest France on 23 August 2020, the regional reference reviews the success of Morta Knives launched 10 years ago by Jean-Henri ...

More and more of you ask us how to correctly sharpen your Morta knife. In this video tutorial you will see some tips to get a good start in the art of sharpening. Several methods ...

Leon’s kitchen – An unusual story of cooking, hit men and auctions… This is first time we made a video that did not talk about knives: This video has met with a crazy success among ...