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Innovative wool textiles developed at AgResearch in Christchurch are meeting consumer demand for more functional fabrics and creating new opportunities for textile products. Rights: The ...

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Developing Natural Easy Care fabrics

Lightweight, easy care wool fabrics have been made possible by new developments in spinning technology, and they’re meeting consumer demand for more functional fabrics. Discover how Natural Easy ...

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Testing Natural Easy Care fabrics

Natural Easy Care (NEC) fabrics are designed to retain all their aesthetic and functional properties after machine washing and tumble drying. Performance testing provides assurance they are fit ...

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In this activity, students compare the rate of degradation of disposable plates using three different disposal methods. Purpose To experiment with a range of disposable plates made from different ...

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Making felt

In this activity, students create felt from wool fibres to illustrate how the surface structure of wool fibres affects its washability. Purpose This activity will help students understand the ...

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Exploring wool fibre properties

In this activity, students explore the microstructure of wool fibre and how it relates to the properties and uses of wool. Purpose This activity will help students understand how the ...

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A Year 9 class visited a local lavender farm as part of a biotechnology unit investigating the production, packaging and marketing of lavender oil for aromatherapy. The purpose of the field trip ...

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Designing a new product from potato starch – unit plan

Students develop their knowledge to design a disposable product as a sustainable alternative to an existing product. Purpose To consider the issues of increasing plastics use and understand why ...

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Marketing a reusable product: potato plates – unit plan

Students develop their knowledge to design a disposable product as a sustainable alternative to an existing product. Purpose To understand why increasing use of non-degradable materials is not ...

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Traditional stab and flame-resistant fabrics are inflexible and heavy, so they are uncomfortable to wear for extended lengths of time. Senior Scientist Dr Stewart Collie compares the new fabric ...

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Testing stab resistance

New stab-resistant fabric developed at AgResearch offers a different level of protection to conventional stab-proof garments, so researchers developed their own test method to measure the ...

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Demonstrating flame resistance

Incorporating wool fibre into a new stab and flame-resistant fabric developed at AgResearch increases its flame resistance and thermal protection. The wool fabric stops burning after the flame is ...

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Wool fibre structure and properties

This interactive shows the cellular structure of wool fibre and how this relates to its properties.

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This interactive highlights the critical role temperature plays in the world of ceramics.

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Wool processing: fleece to fabric

Wool undergoes many stages of processing to turn it into fabric. Click on each step in this interactive flow diagram to find its purpose and view the process in action.

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