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Story: Flax and flax working

Page 6. External links and sources

More links and websites

  • Harakeke: flax

    On the Royal Society of New Zealand website, this booklet by Judith Jones describes the many uses of flax, and the development of the New Zealand flax fibre industry.

  • The New Zealand flaxmilling industry

    On the Techhistory website, an article by Ian Matheson on the history of flax milling.

More suggestions and sources

  • Hindmarsh, Gerard. ‘Flax: the enduring fibre.’ New Zealand Geographic 42 (April–June 1999): 20–53.
  • Matheson, Ian. ‘Flax town.’ In Foxton 1888–1988: the first 100 years, edited by A. N. Hunt. Foxton: Foxton Borough Council, 1987.
  • Salmond, Anne. Between worlds: early exchanges between Māori and Europeans, 1773–1815. Auckland: Viking, 1997.
  • Scheele, Sue, and Geoff Walls. Harakeke: the Rene Orchiston Collection. Rev. ed. Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1994.
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Nancy Swarbrick, Flax and flax working, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/6707/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.