Spirit of New Zealand
Includes 18 Spools of Outback Embroidery 100% Rayon threads
1> E370 Duck Green
2> E173 Dark Almond
3> E192 Dark Inca
4>E040 Smoke Grey
5>E134 Falcon Blue
6>E295 Vibrant Blue
7>E001 White
8>E070 Inca
9>E053 Lite Peach
10>E000 Black
11>E042 Wild Blue
12>E037 Picardy Red
13>E357 Verdoro Green
14>E041 Gundagai Grey
15>E144 Dark Leather
15>E118 Light Smoke
17>E145 Light Chocalate
18>E057 Medium Bridle
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 New Zealand's first flag, the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, was adopted before New Zealand became a British colony. Chosen by
an assembly of Maori chiefs in 1834, the flag was of a St. George's Cross with another cross in the canton containing four stars on a blue
field. After the formation of the colony in 1841, British ensigns began to be used. The current flag was designed and adopted for restricted
use in 1869 and became the national flag in 1902. It is the British Blue Ensign, with a highly stylized representation of the Southern Cross
constellation. It depicts only four of the five stars in the constellation. Each star varies slightly in size. The Union Jack in the canton recalls
New Zealand's colonial ties to Britain.
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 Tiki or heitiki are traditional ornaments created by Maori, the Polynesian first settlers of New Zealand. The material they are most commonly made from is nephrite, a stone related to jade, found in several places in New Zealand's South Island. It is called pounamu in Maori, greenstone in common New Zealand English. The Maori name for the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, refers to the stone. There are traditional accounts for the creation of the stone which relate it to the children of Tangaroa. It is a very hard stone and is laborious to work, especially so with the basic grinding tools available to the Neolithic Maori. The ornament is unique to New Zealand, as are several other ornaments made from this stone.
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 The Silver Fern is widely used in New Zealand to signify New Zealandness. It is incorporated in the badges of most Army units, and more importantly it forms the wreath surrounding the central badge on Regimental Colours
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 Kiwis are famous for their ingenuity and self-sufficiency. It is said that Kiwis can create amazing things — all they need is ‘a piece of Number 8 wire’. No 8 wire is a certain gauge of wire that was incredibly popular for use as fencing wire around New Zealand’s many farms. Ironically, until 1963, it was imported from other countries. Because No. 8 wire was widely available, it was used for a variety of tasks, and it has become a symbol of kiwi adaptability
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 This is the way Maori people greet
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 The Tui is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand. It is one of the largest members of the diverse honeyeater family.
Tui are considered to be very intelligent, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their ability to clearly imitate human speech, and are known for their noisy, unusual call, different for each individual, that combine bellbird-like notes with clicks, cackles, timber-like creaks and groans, and wheezing sounds—the unusual possession of two voiceboxes enable Tui to perform such a myriad of vocalisations.
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 NZ Rugby
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 The pohutukawa tree with its crimson flower has become an established part of the New Zealand Christmas tradition. This iconic Kiwi Christmas tree, which often features on greeting cards and in poems and songs, has become an important symbol for New Zealanders at home and abroad.
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 The kiwi is a nocturnal bird and relies on it's very keen sense of smell through the nostrils on the end of it's long beak (one third of the body length) to find food and sense danger. It has very limited sight, and although it has wings, it cannot fly. They live in forests or swamps and feed on insects, worms, snails, and berries. They also lay the biggest egg for body weight of any bird - up to 20% of it's body weight. They usually lay 2 eggs in a burrow and the smaller male sits on these eggs. They hatch in about 11 weeks.
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 Most species of Kowhai grow to around 8 m high and have fairly smooth bark with small leaves
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 In New Zealand, Wellingtons are called "gumboots" and considered essential foot wear for farmers. Gumboots are often referred to in Kiwi popular culture such as Footrot Flats. The farming town of Taihape in New Zealand's North Island proclaims itself "Gumboot capital of the World" and has annual competitions and events such as Gumboot Day where gumboots are thrown. Most gumboots are black, but those worn by abattoir workers, butchers, and by hospital operating theatre staff and surgeons are white, and children's sizes come in multiple colours.
The term "gumboot" in New Zealand is thought to derive from the 19th-century Kauri-gum diggers, who wore this footwear or perhaps because the boots were made from gum rubber. The term is often abbreviated to "gummies". Kiwi celebrity Fred Dagg paid tribute to this iconic footwear in his song "Gumboots".
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 His haka is said to have actually originated during a time Te Rauparaha was fleeing from his enemies, hid in a sweet potato field one night and by morning awoke to be told by a hairy chief that his enemies had gone. He then performed his victorious haka.
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 Maori Road Sign
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 New Zealand has 45 million sheep and produces the finest wool in the world. New Zealand is also the biggest producer of wool in the world after Australia. The sheep outnumber the country's human population by more than 11 to one.
British colonists first successfully introduced sheep to New Zealand in the early 1800s. Today there are six main sheep breeds, and about 30 breeds in total. Farmers keep breeds that best suit their type of farmland and climate.
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