Taillanderie de Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, Industrial heritage workshop in Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne, France

The Taillanderie de Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne is a former edge-tool factory on the Arcange stream at La Doye. Its stone and masonry building has a red clay tile roof, a large water wheel with dark metal spokes and a wooden rim set into the left facade, and a narrow wooden chute feeding water onto the wheel. The lower facade is rough grey stone; the upper section above the wheel is pale cream plaster. A small square stone chimney rises above green-framed windows.

Created in 1828 by the Lagrange family, the taillanderie was taken over from 1865 by the Philibert family, who specialised it in scythe-making. Between 1890 and 1914, 20 to 25 workers produced 35,000 tools a year, over 20,000 of them scythes, one twentieth of the French market. Mechanisation of mowing machines after World War I brought decline; the works closed in 1969 with three workers and 3,000 scythes a year, and was classified a monument historique on 16 November 1984.

The name "taillanderie" refers to workshops making cutting tools for farmers, such as scythes and billhooks. Because the site stood apart from the village, workers and apprentices slept on the premises, and an exhibition room today recounts their living conditions and the making of edge tools.

The site is open seasonally, mainly from April through October, with longer hours during the warmer months. Guided tours are available and help visitors understand how the old machinery operated and what the manufacturing process involved.

The two oak bellows, each weighing 2 tonnes, hang from the roof truss and work alternately: one draws air while the other blows it through a pipe to the forge hearths inside the workshop. The set dates from 1886 and is described in the sources as unique in Europe.