Wool
Strong wool renaissence
A long-established wool company and furniture business have linked to provide sustainable furnishings. By Annabelle Latz.
On a roll with wool
After school, it was a choice of working in a bank or picking up the shearing handpiece for a young Northland woman. Shearing won. By Glenys Christian. Photos: Malcolm Pullman.
Broken-down wool gets new use
Flooring is not the only future use for New Zealand’s coarse wools. Annabelle Latz writes.
Wool on the floor
The returns, or lack thereof, for coarse wool have been a thorn in the lamb producer’s side for years now, but Nicola Dennis says there are some good options for wool growers.
Focus on performance
Jo Cuttance reports on a programme crossing Merino rams and Romney ewes to lower the wool micron measure.
Back to Corriedale origins
One Romney wool fining project is using finer-woolled Corriedale rams in its breeding programme. Jo Cuttance reports. Photos by Nathn Trethowen.
Woolless or finer wool
Modelling shows Wiltshire-Romney cross could relieve farmers of the costly animal welfare requirement to shear coarse-wool sheep. By Jo Cuttance.
Wool’s cool and it bounces
A pair of mobile wool sheds are on a tour of New Zealand schools teaching students about the story of wool. Annabelle Latz reports.
Learning wool’s wonders
Wool in schools, a project that educates Kiwi school children about the wonders of wool, will see its 25,000th student pass through its ‘wool sheds’ in August.
Getting the measure of poor fibres
"We can do better" is the message Professor Jon Hickford of Lincoln University wants sheep farmers to get about their wool.