A clothes pin is an object intended to maintain Linge put to dry on a Clothes line or a clothes line. It is made up of two moving parts maintained by a spring.

There are many aspects and many compositions. They are generally in plastic Bois or ; the Ressort allowing the mobility of the two parts is always in Métal, sometimes helicoid or with blade.

Use

Those out of wood are largely used in creative leisures to make objects and in Bricolage to maintain two objects flat to stick for example.

There are the large ones, generally used to gather papers. There are also miniatures, used formerly with the manner of the Post-it.

Cultural references

The clothes pin is regularly used in the cartoons to stop the Nez by applying it above.

The group of folk-rock'n'roll Machin left an album with a clothes pin on the small pocket which is presented like the answer baba cool to the safety pin punk.

the Four Bearded interpreted the song the clothes pin , whose words were written by Francis Blanche and Pierre Dac in 1949 on the music of the Symphonie n° 5 of Beethoven; those tell the life of certain Jérémie Victor Opdebec, alleged inventive of the clothes pin.

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