I’ve been leafing through Foy & Gibson catalogues from the first four decades of the 20th century to try to understand what attracted Australian customers to wearing wool.
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Vegan wool, peanut coats and the discovery of DNA: the forgotten life of scientist William Astbury
Women meet to weave, reflect, commiserate, share culture and tell stories in hopes of passing down ancestral knowledge.
From fibre to fabric. The process of making textiles has been important to humans for almost 35,000 years.
The enduring popularity of knitting lies in its practicality, portability and mental health benefits. As the mercury drops and we head outside for bracing walks, it’s time to knit a woollen scarf.
The wool industry was paralysed for several days after hackers held to ransom the IT system that governs almost all wool sales in Australia and New Zealand. More attacks are a case of if, not when.
How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
From small towns, through a complex global production network, wool products have become tricky to ‘place’.
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Author and Honorary Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Human Geography Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer, Human Geography, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of History, University of South Wales
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Lawyer, Curtin University
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Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Early Childhood Education, Western University
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Assistant professor, Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada
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Manager - Circular Economy Initatives and ANFF-Deakin Hub, Deakin University
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Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
