Wool industry : a decade of turbulence : an examination of some of the factors contributing to the crisis within Australia's wool industry, and the resulting economic, social and demographic effects on a small isolated rural community

A central issue of this thesis has been an examination of the effects that the current wool crisis has had on the Balmoral district, an area almost solely devoted to the production of wool and wool sheep. Examines the methods being utilised to try to alleviate some of these effects.

Fabric and greasy wool handle, their importance to the Australian wool industry: a review

Handle-related properties of woollen fabrics have been demonstrated to be major factors affecting consumer buying attitudes. Handle is the combination of both textural and compressional attributes. Compressional handle has demonstrated processing advantages in woven and knitted fabrics. The handle of processing lots can be manipulated using a variety of technologies but direct manipulation of textural greasy wool handle pre-processing is still crude. On-farm, there is documented evidence that including handle assessment in a selection index provides additional improvements in genetic gain. However, the assessment of greasy wool handle is based on a tactile evaluation of the wool staple by sheep and wool classers, and its application is affected by a lack of framework that instructs assessors on a standard method of assessment. Once a reliable and repeatable protocol is developed, further understanding of the effect greasy wool handle has on final garment quality will be possible.

Pioneer woolen mills in Oregon; history of wool and the woolen textile industry in Oregon, 1811-1875,

Map on lining-papers.

The photostability of wool doped with photocatalytic titanium dioxide

Photoyellowing of wool is a serious problem for the wool industry. This study assessed the role of photocatalytic nanocrystalline titanium dioxide (P-25) as a potential antagonist or catalyst in the photoyellowing of wool. Untreated, bleached and bleached and fluorescent-whitened wool slivers were processed into fine wool powders for the purpose of even and intimate mixing with the TiO2 nanoparticles in the solid state. Pure wool and wool/TiO2 mixtures were then compressed into solid discs for a photoyellowing study under simulated sunlight and under UVB and UVC radiations. Yellowness and photo-induced chemiluminescence (PICL) measurements showed that nanocrystalline TiO2 could effectively reduce the rate of photoyellowing by inhibiting free radical generation in doped wool, and that a higher concentration of TiO2 contributed to a lower rate of photooxidation and reduced photoyellowing. Hence nanocrystalline TiO2 acts primarily as a UV absorber on wool in dry conditions and not as a photocatalyst.

Assessment of the pilling propensity of wool knitwear

This study addresses a major issue facing the wool industry - the formation of entangled fibres or pills on wool knitwear. By examining the factors that contribute to the inconsistent pilling results, ways of improving the test procedures have been identified. This will have practical implications for the textile industry.

Controlling and predicting the pilling propensity of knitted wool fabrics

This thesis tackles an important quality issue in the wool industry - the pilling of wool knitwear. Through artificial neural network modelling, the important fibre, yarn and fabric attributes that affect fabric pilling have been identified. A predictive model on fabric pilling has been developed, which will assist the wool industry in the management and control of fabric pilling.

Wool tariffs and American policy.

Mode of access: Internet.

Livestock, meat, wool, market news; weekly summary and statistics.

Microfiche.

An account of the proceedings of the merchants, manufacturers, and others, concerned in the wool and woollen trade of Great Britain, in their application to Parliament, that the laws respecting the exportation of wool might not be altered, in arranging the union with Ireland, but left to the wisdom of the imperial Parliament, if such a measure should hereafter appear to be just and expedient.

Issued by a committee of the merchants and manufacturers, John Maitland, chairman.

The wool situation /

Approved by: the Outlook and Situation Board.

Bibliography on wool.

Text runs parallel with back of cover.

The propriety of allowing a qualified exportation of wool discussed historically. To which is added an appendix: containing a table, which shews the value of the woolen goods of every kind, that were entered for exportation at the custom-house, from 1697 to 1780 inclusive, as well as the prices of wool in England, during all that period.

Mode of access: Internet.

An answer to Sir John Dalrymple's pamphlet upon the exportation of wool.

Mode of access: Internet.

Plain reasons addressed to the people of Great-Britain, against the (intended) petition to Parliament from the owners and occupiers of land in the county of Lincoln, for leave to export wool. With some remarks on Sir John Dalrymple's treatise, lately published, in favour of a general exportation of wool.

In manuscript, p. iv : [the author] "The Revd. Sheepshanks, rector of St. Johns in Leeds".