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Kōrero: Shearing

The Bowen technique

Video file

In the 1940s and 1950s Godfrey and Ivan Bowen developed a technique for shearing, using easy rhythmical sweeps of the shearing handpiece. Watch Godfrey demonstrate the technique.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Shearing Technique. National Film Unit, 1957

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Des Williams, Shearing – From blades to shearing machines, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/18252/the-bowen-technique (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Des Williams, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.