9th September 2023

Tailors’ Buttons

S.A.Wn. Co, Adelaide.

The South Australia Woollen Company existed from 1883 (although there was a prior business run from 1868-1878) until it was rebranded as the Onkaparinga Woollen Company in 1928. The brand is now owned by William A McNeil & Co Pty Ltd, and still produces quality woollen products.

See https://onkaparinga.com.au/blog/onkaparinga-since-1869-a-history-in-pictures/

https://fabrik.org.au/history-of-the-onkaparinga-woollen-mill/

“On its way to the factory”

The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA), 30th December 1904 page 6.