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Weekly Review No. 280 - Patterns in Flax

Short Film (Full Length) – 1947

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Kevin Walls
Kevin Walls
13 May 2012 - 12.11pm
Kevin Walls really enjoyed this video, he used to work in this factory on a roll winder at the same time as Trevor Skipper - brought back some good memories







Maria White
Maria White
8 Apr 2012 - 11.21am
OMG

that is old school hard lol, I enjoyed every bit of the vid, although it was obveous that there were no tikanaga in place back in the day, to me it's all about doing the job to put kai on the table.
Tania Pompey
Tania Pompey
18 Oct 2011 - 04.38pm
Wow I never seen that done like that before as me being a weaver myself that's different how they use did Harakeke back then.
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