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New ways with wool

Australia, 1952
film

The production of many new types of synthetic fibres is a threat to the future of the Australian wool industry - the chemist is producing new materials more c..

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Keeping wool in shape

Australia, 1983
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Australian wool textile industry

Australia, 1956
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Magic fibre

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The Future makers

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Moving wool

Australia, 1974
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Science goes wool-growing

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Men in wool

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Achievement

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Fabrics of the future

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Wall to wall in wool

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Wool: an exhibition of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Festival of Arts, 1972

Australia, 1973
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Wool in Australia

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A World of difference

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Woollen piece

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Cloth: fiber to fabric

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[Release prints compilation]

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Fine wools of Tasmania

Australia, 1952
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The Making of woollen and worsted yarn

United Kingdom, 1948
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