The WoolPass skein mark

Proof that travels
with the fibre

Give every bale a WoolPass™.

From the shearing shed onwards, WoolPass helps keep the identity and evidence behind New Zealand wool connected as it moves through the world.

For New Zealand growers

Your wool already has a story. WoolPass™ helps it travel.

  • Create a digital identity for every bale or lot
  • Carry origin, care and assurance records downstream
  • Reduce repeated paperwork
  • Strengthen proof for buyers
  • Support premium market conversations
  • Keep the grower visible beyond the farm gate

Provenance and traceability

Five links. One unbroken record.

Every tick on the WoolPass mark is a point where fibre changes hands — and a point where its story is captured, verified, and carried forward. Scroll, and the mark's thread follows the wool.

A farmer and his dog moving a mob of ewes along a hill-country farm track
01 · Farm

It begins on the land

The flock, the practices, the people. The grower records where the wool came from and how it was produced. Measured results, like micron, are added later by the laboratories that test it.

Shearing on the board while a wool handler throws a fleece onto the wool table
02 · Shed & store

The first link

Shearing, classing, baling. Each bale begins with a connection to its origin, creating the first link in its WoolPass record.

Checking clean wool as it comes off the scour line
03 · Scour & process

Claims meet evidence

Cleaning and processing are logged against the same batch — with claims (mulesing-free, organic, carbon) linked to real evidence.

Piecing up a broken yarn end on a spinning frame
04 · Spin & weave

The record travels

Yarn and cloth inherit the record. The chain stays connected across mills, countries, and custodians.

A customer trying on a wool coat in a small shop
05 · Finished product

Proof reaches the product

The evidence gathered along the journey can support the finished product, helping brands demonstrate origin, composition and provenance, while preparing for emerging Digital Product Passport and circularity requirements.

The hands behind the fibre

Wool is made by people, on real land

Behind every passport is a grower who knows their flock, a classer with a trained eye, a scourer, a weaver, a maker. WoolPass makes sure their work is seen, and rewarded.

The pilot pathway

Verified New Zealand wool. Trusted manufacturing.
Stronger global fibre trade.

We are inviting selected partners to pilot a new proof pathway — connecting trusted New Zealand wool with world-class processing and a stronger story for international brands and designers.

New Zealand has set out to double the value of its exports by 2034. For wool, that means buyers being able to see, and check, what makes New Zealand wool worth more.

  1. NZ growerbale proof
  2. Spinneror topmaker
  3. Weaveror knitter
  4. Finished productQR passport
  5. Export buyerbrand story

Built for the whole chain

Every step adds evidence. WoolPass keeps it connected.

WoolPass connects the people, evidence and transformations behind wool — from the shearing shed to the finished product.

Growers

Give your wool an identity from the start.

Connect your farm, your fibre and the evidence behind it, while choosing what you share.

Brokers & processors

Add to the record, without changing the way you work.

Keep trusted information connected as wool is tested, traded, combined and transformed.

Brands

Know the evidence behind the fibre you source.

Connect product claims to credible origin, testing, assurance and supply-chain evidence.

Consumers

Know more about what you’re buying.

Discover the people, places and evidence behind the fibre, its journey, its care and, ultimately, what comes next.

WoolPass™ doesn’t replace the people who grow, test, trade or transform wool. It helps their evidence stay connected.

Amanda Bransgrove, founder of WoolTraceNZ and creator of WoolPass
Amanda Bransgrove
Founder & CEO

Our story

Wool heritage, made verifiable

Raised in Central Otago and shaped by three decades in fashion and film, our founder built WoolPass to help protect the identity and evidence behind New Zealand wool as it moves from farm to finished product.

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Join the early partners

Building the proof layer
for natural fibre, together.

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Amanda Bransgrove

Founder & CEO

From New Zealand farms
to global design.