About New Zealand Wool

Happy Sheep

New Zealand’s temperature, climate, and lush green pastures are ideal for sheep. New Zealand sheep are grass-fed, free-range animals who enjoy abundant sunshine, fresh air, and clean drinking water. Happy animals grow healthy coats, and this is the raw material we work with to produce high quality wool grades suitable for market.

Our Selection

Fleece wool:

This is grown from the main body of the sheep. The belly wool and the skirtings of the fleece is keep separate to ensure the fleece wool is kept consistent and uniform for length and colour. The fleece wool has been specifically selected by Bansi for its unique characteristics.

Fleece wools that are washed naturally have a creamy colour. So you need to look for creamy coloured wool, NOT white wool. You should steer clear of snowy-white wools that are cheap, such as you will find in products from China, or in products where NZ wool has been processed in China. They are cheaper, but they have been processed with acids and the wool has low strength.

Why You Should Steer Clear of Treated Wools

The main reason NZ and Australian grown and processed wool is so highly valued and brings better prices than wools from third world countries, is because those countries still use banned chemicals. These wools generally end up in China where they are blended-in to make the good wool go further.

In China there is NO environmental quality control. Arsenic and DDT are residual in the wools from third world countries. The cheaper, poorer quality wool processed in China comes from China itself but also countries such as Russia and South America.