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You received your Morta fixed knife with its leather case but you cannot insert it fully into the sheath, which seems too narrow? This is because it’s new and the leather of the case needs ...

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021, while viewers awaited a report on the Pays de la Loire region, they were greeted by a mechanical elephant with impressive trumpeting. Wow! What a surprise!

Morta Knives | In the heart of Brière Morta Knives | In the heart of Brière. On that day it was the programme Échappées Belles (a travelogue) airing on France 5 that took an interest ...

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.