In addition to its fibre crafts, the area produces arrack (an alcoholic beverage distilled from malted rice mash and molasses) and mangosteen, a reddish-brown fruit that is valued for its juicy, delicate texture and its slightly astringent flavour.
16-19 April 2009, South Canterbury - Creative Fibre, the New Zealand organisation for all fibre crafts, hold the Creative Fibre Festival bringing together spinners, weavers, knitters, dyers, flax workers, felters, crocheters, free form fibre artists and all other people involved in the use of fibre.
Styled by the Echeverrias' own design house, the two-seat 05 will wear bodies of fibreglass or, optionally, carbon fibre composite, crafted in Canada.
The merchant guild in a wool-processing town or city, for instance, would control the purchase of raw wool and the production and sale of the processed fibre, while the craft guilds would control the actual carding, dyeing, and weaving of the wool.
Weaving (of cloth and palm fibre) and ceramics are common crafts.
The DB10's panels are crafted from carbon fibre, as it's the quickest material to work with.
And because the exceptionally stout body (which features a self-cleaning finish) is crafted of carbon fibre composite, aluminium and titanium, the e-Car tips the scales at just 3,570lbs – fully 2,000lbs less than the brawny Benz.
The roofless, door-less, windscreen-less CC100, crafted entirely of carbon fibre, is not a small car, measuring some 14.5 feet nose to tail and 6.5 feet from mirror to mirror.
Pottery, rope making, palm-fibre weaving, and adobe brickmaking are other crafts practiced.
Characteristic crafts are ceramics and palm-fibre weaving; a limited amount of textile weaving is also done.
Penned in-house by chief creative officer Marek Reichman, the Vulcan features a carbon fibre monocoque structure fabricated by Canada-based Multimatic, which previously crafted the composite chassis for Aston's One-77 supercar.
