The first video in THE STORY OF NZ MERINO WOOL series presents a brief history of New Zealand's wool industry, and merino wool's transition from a commodity to a brand.
STORY
Anne Galloway
VIDEO & VOICE
Samantha Carew
SOURCES
"Wool: A History of New Zealand’s Wool Industry" by Bill Carter and John MacGibbon ngaiopress.com/wool.htm
Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand teara.govt.nz/
NZ History Online nzhistory.net.nz/
PRODUCTION
Design Culture Lab with the support of the Royal Society of NZ Marsden Fund and the Victoria University of Wellington Summer Scholars Scheme.
designculturelab.org/
COPYRIGHT
Design Culture Lab, 2011. Available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand license:
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/deed.en
PART OF THE COUNTING SHEEP PROJECT
designculturelab.org/projects/counting-sheep-project-overview/