☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Mar 12

“#Australia is the largest producer of #wool in the world, and while the fibre was once spun and finished here, ready to be made into new #garments, since the 1980s it has been shipped overseas – resulting in an estimated $2.6 billion annual loss for the #FashionIndustry.

On Thursday, the #AustralianFashionCouncil announced the “National Manufacturing Strategy for Australian Fashion and Textiles” with industry partner #RMWilliams and a parliamentary committee steered by federal Labor MP Matt Burnell.

Dean and Melanie Flintoft rescued #SilverFleece, a 75-year-old #KnittingMill in South Australia, from liquidation. AFC executive chair Marianne Perkovic called the strategy “a significant investment in the future of national #manufacturing”.
The first item on the agenda? More onshore #WoolProcessing.”

#sheep / #fibre / #micron / #yarn < https://www.afr.com/companies/manufacturing/fashion-industry-s-plan-to-add-4b-spin-to-old-yarn-20260311-p5o9jl> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/08jY1>

Australian fashion industry plans to add $4b with new manufacturing strategy focused on wool

While Australian makers cannot compete with fast fashion, experts say they can get back on the sheep’s back.

Australian Financial Review
Axiom to the Max(iom)Oct 12, 2023

Batts on Batts on Batts!
Playing around with my new drum carder.
Two Batts of Jacob, and four of Alpaca/Wool blend in various ratios.

Now to go set up the e-spinner 😼

#woolProcessing #handSpinning