Austral wol- en katoenlabels & advertenties

Austral is a registered trademark of yarns produced by a French spinning company: “Filatures Pierre Prouvost”, based in Roubaix. This company was founded around 1937 and closed in 1981.

It belonged to the huge spinning group Prouvost, the most important European spinning company with different yarn brands such as Laines du Pingouin, their major brand. Most of the wool (almost three quarters) came from Australia and New-Zealand: the brand name Austral comes from the name Australia, and the company used the Australian map or a little koala hugging a yarn ball as a logo.