International Wool Secretariat

That was one

of the surprises when I began researching the whole wool and French connection is that I discovered about the International Wool Secretariat.

It was formed in, I think, 1937. to promote Southern Hemisphere wool and possibly on the back of the beginnings of polyesters and synthetics being popular and being made at this time involved in fabrics.

So following through the history of the wool secretariat, I discovered that in the 1950s when Australia had its big wool boom with the Korean War beginning, it began to not only promote Southern Hemisphere wool, but also to provide this wonderful competition and their very first design prizes.

So I wove both of those stories together.

together and then of course the prime or the illuminating point was when I discovered about the International Wool Secretariat and how Christian Dior had been involved in it.

It promoted southern hemisphere wool through the 1930s and in the 1950s with the wool boom began this wonderful design prize and so Christian Dior was involved with that and it was all about of course southern hemisphere and Australian wool so obviously I had to put Maddy right into the thick of it.

Oh, look, and family plays a big part in this novel.