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Mill In Sydney
Simeon Lord established a mill in Sydney and in 1816 he entered into an agreement with Governor Macquarie to mill, dye and dress cloth from the female factory at Parramatta. -
Another Textile Factory
Another early textile factory was established in 1832 at Blackwattle Bay, Sydney. It manufactured the finest as well as the coarset cloths. -
More Mills
In 1838 there were seven woollen mills in NSW and by 1841 most people in the colony were dressed in tweeds made at Parramatta. The output of woollen cloth reached 235000 yards per annum in 1852.NSW was not the only place where cloth was produced. -
First Cloth Woven In Victoria
Linge also suggests that the first cloth ever woven in Victoria was produced by the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Manufacturing Company, in January 1868. But it may have been made at Pentridge Prison quite a few years earlier. -
The Waverley Woollen Mill
The Waverley Woollen Mill at Distillery Creek, Launceston, was established in 1873 and won the prize of 1000 pounds offered by the Tasmanian clonial goverment for the first woolloen goods manufactured in th colony from locally produced wool.