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Kōrero: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts

From wool to woven: dyeing wool

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From wool to woven: dyeing wool

Both spinning and weaving grew in popularity after the Second World War. Some spinners and weavers dyed their own wool. Here Joan Gordon, Muriel Bunny (partially obscured) and Maureen Tracey of the Port Nicholson Weavers (a Wellington group) are dyeing wool in Bunny's back garden, just outside Ōtaki.

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Kerryn Pollock, Sewing, knitting and textile crafts – Knitting, spinning and weaving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40534/from-wool-to-woven-dyeing-wool (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 12 December 2012.