Melbourne Woollen Mills

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Function: Materials or Textiles Industries

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Melbourne Woollen Mills by Stony Creek turned out 130,000 yards of tweed a year, fabrics spun from pure merino wool and dyed in varying patterns of black, brown, olive, crimson, scarlet and indigo blue. Taken from: http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/industrial-landscape-becoming-a-desert/2005/09/27/1127804478574.html

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A001230. [ Details ]

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