New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Ltd 1956. Green Spears. The Story of the Foxton flax industry from plantation to finished product. New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Ltd. Foxton.

Notes

List of flax products. Woolpacks. Phormium matting. Foxton car mats. Carpets - "Cordella", `woven" cord carpetry, "Brusella", new looped, pile cord carpet. Carded tow for upholsterer"s trade. Carded hemp for plastering trade. Stack and implement covers. Flax fibre dyed. The subsidiary company, Bonded Felts, used waste fibres to make `Bondex" needled padding, `Bondex" underfelt, `Bondex" tumbling mats used by Education Boards throughout New Zealand.

Photos in booklet show plantation planting, harvesting, stripping, manufacturing.

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Title

Green Spears. The Story of the Foxton flax industry from plantation to finished product

Date, primary

1956

Author, primary

New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Ltd

Publisher

New Zealand Woolpack and Textiles Ltd. Foxton

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df6b06e1-1dda-4ec3-b15e-5cce1961cf9b

Record class

reference

Date added

12 June 2007

Date last updated

4 September 2009