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The MIF exhibition has just opened the doors to its 10th edition and already several hundred visitors are waiting in front of the Parc Expo in Versailles on 10 November 2022.

The taste of coffee still present on the palate, the JHP team embarks probes, spades, crane and hoist in the 4×4s and takes the road to the Brière marshes. The weather decides to discourage them ...

Do I have the right to carry a knife on me? Ah! The eternal question. Rumours abound, but there’s still no point placing the blade in the hollow of you palm, it’s just a myth. ...

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, ...