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Batch WIS21Certified Wool Analysis
Blended Batch — Test Results
| Mean fibre diameter Airflow IWTO-28 | 38.9 micron |
| Staple length Blended evenly for length | 63–100 mm (2.5–4 in) |
| Colour IWTO-56 · Y-Z 1.1 | Bright white |
| Vegetable matter IWTO-19 | 0.0% |
| Residual grease IWTO-10 | 0.19% |
| Wool base IWTO-19 | 85.67% |
| Moisture content | 12.75% |
| Bales in batch | 24 |
| Mulesing status | Non-mulesed |
Source Farms — East Coast, Tairāwhiti
Aerial Station NZFAP FA19094
| Traceability line | WIS21A |
| Bales supplied | 27 |
| Micron | 37.6 |
| Mulesing status | Non-mulesed |
Waihapua Station NZFAP FA10218
| Traceability line | WIS21B |
| Bales supplied | 20 |
| Micron | 38.3 |
| Mulesing status | Non-mulesed |
Maranui Station NZFAP FA19278
| Traceability line | WIS21C |
| Bales supplied | 24 |
| Micron | 38.7 |
| Mulesing status | Non-mulesed |
Certificate 1-01619285.W8 issued by the New Zealand Wool Testing Authority. These results are independently verifiable with NZWTA using the code above.
The wool inside this product came from three family farms on the East Coast of New Zealand.
Three farms. One region. Generations of families who have farmed this land since before most countries had electricity.
Below is a provenance map of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. Each pin marks a farm whose wool is in Wise Batch 21.
Pins show each farm's district, not its gate. Tap a pin for details.
Aerial Station
- In this batch 27 bales
Fraser and Jaime Tombleson farm Aerial Station, 1,006 hectares of steep Gisborne hill country, with their three children. They run Romdale sheep to exacting export standards. Jaime makes jewellery from a workshop above the valley, often overlooking a sea of clouds.
Waihapua
- In this batch 20 bales
The Reeves family farm Waihapua Station, 700 hectares of hill country near Tolaga Bay — sixth-generation East Coast farmers. Their favourite season is autumn, when the deer roar echoes through the hills and duck shooting opens.
Maranui
- In this batch 24 bales
George and Abby Whitehead farm Maranui Station in Ormond Valley, Gisborne, where they live with their three children. Its 847 hectares run an even split of sheep and cattle. Their favourite season is spring, when the new lambs arrive.
after the shear
Shorn on farm: Strong Wool fleece, clipped twice a year.
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Grading: The wool is then graded into most premium length, color, micron and vegetable matter quality.
Scoured at WoolWorks: Washed at the world's most sustainable wool scouring operation. Double washed to the Wisewool recipe no other supplier matches.
Engineered at Te Poi: Processed into WiseLayer™ and WiseFill™ at our Matamata factory and shipped to the manufacturer who made the product you are holding.
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The wisewool story
132 Years. One Fibre. One Family.
Wisewool™ is a fifth-generation New Zealand wool company. We have been working with farmers like these since 1894. We pay farmers first. We engineer nature's cleverness into every fibre we process. And now, with Wisewool™ Traceability Programme, we can prove it.