Laguiole, Histoire d'un couteau d'exception, French book
In this book of 192 full color pages very well illustrated the author makes us discover the birth of Laguiole and the life of the first workshops. He tells us how this knife conquered the capital and took the opportunity to rectify some misconceptions, the reality is sometimes more beautiful than the legend.
The LAGUIOLE is the most famous French knife, a mythical knife known all over the world - the bee who adorns the Laguiole knife is its flag bearer.
The laguiole, peasant knife of the Aubrac, born in Laguiole (Aveyron), in the workshop of a simple cutter-blacksmith, is today a cultural marker of the attachment to a preserved territory and the symbol of a French way of life.
"Montée à Paris" in the pocket of the bougnats, the Laguiole has acquired its acclaim with cutlery makers Calmels, Pagès and Crocombette.
Contents:
- Foreword
- Aubrac, a living land and men
- At the source of a knife
- The first knives in Laguiole
- The birth of the Laguiole knife
- In Laguiole, the old craft workshops
- The anatomy of the first Laguiole knives
- From Laguiolais, the knife becomes Averonnais, Cantalien or Lozérien
- Known couturiers from father to son
- Laguiole becomes the knife of bougnat
- From utility knife to decorated knife
- On the road to success, a medalist knife
- The Laguioles of marriage, the race for gigantism
- Satisfy the demand, by subcontractor
- Nicolas Crocombette, an artist of Laguiole
- Period of lean cows
- The revival of the knife in Laguiole
- How is a Laguiole made today?
- Art Cutlers combine Laguiole
- Thiers, the other city of Laguiole today
- A territorial authenticity to protect
- Protect nature
- Collectors
- Around a Laguiole knife: legends and approximations
- Epilogue
- Technical glossary
- Index
The French texts are written by Christian Lemasson.
Printed in 2019, this book is NEW and is 8-½ inches x 11 inches ( 22 cm x 28 cm )
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