Story: Flax and flax working

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.