When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia Ranch, her business in British Columbia, she did it with a direct interest in fiber art. Today, she has a flock of 25 sheep, mostly ...

Portugal, Bangladesh, Latin America, Cambodia and Africa have all emerged in Australian Wool Innovation’s emerging markets strategy as avenues worth pushing to sell more fibre. The goal of the ...

The study, initiated by the industry’s peak body WoolProducers Australia and completed by Deloitte Access Economics, has shown early stage processing could be completed in Vietnam, India and ...

While shopping for activewear, you’ll undoubtedly see plenty of marketing copy touting the benefits of both natural and synthetic materials. Both have benefits and drawbacks, and many “natural” ...

Click here for a full listing of Edward Smith's publications and outputs. Chemical processing of bast fibre (flax and hemp) and developing analytical techniques in assessing fibre quality of both ...

An interest in more domestic processing opportunities is helping drive interest in developing new mills and manufacturing facilities of varying sizes across Australia.

Australian woolgrowers have won more funding to pursue their long-held dreams of rebuilding a domestic wool processing industry.

Prices for Scottish wool have fallen dramatically due to the impact of "fast fashion" and the Covid pandemic. The "wool cheque" - money paid to farmers and crofters for their produce - once covered ...