Join us at Bendigo’s Lost Trades Fair (9-10 March) for Australia’s biggest celebration of heritage arts and trades.
Meet the Rare Trades Centre team, along with hundreds of artisans demonstrating their trades and selling handcrafted wares. It’s a wonderful event to get inspired, discover arts and trades that you didn’t know existed and meet the people who do them!
We’re proud to be hosting a talented team of artisans from around Australia who’ll be at the Lost Trades Fair and then sharing their skills and knowledge in workshops at the Rare Trades Centre afterwards.
Join these interstate artisans as they extend their stay after the Lost Trades Fair. Don’t miss your chance to do a deep dive with these artisans and learn from them before they make the long journey home back to Queensland and New South Wales.
- Leather plaiting with champion plaiter Bill Webb, 15-17 March
- Copper serving utensils with Matt Mewburn, 15 March
- Hand caning with Ron and Cathie Twaddle, 15 March
- Organic basket making Ron and Cathie Twaddle, 16-17 March
- Blacksmithing tools with Matt Mewburn, 16-17 March
- Leadlight window decorations and restoration demonstration with Brian Sims, 16 March
Another nine Victorian-based Lost Trades Fair artisans will also drop into the Rare Trades Centre for these workshops, offering a great opportunity to learn from our home-grown makers.
- Introductory woodwork for kids with Tim Schloss, 23-24 March
- Norse inspired adornment and cuffs with Sam Bloomfield, 13 April
- Carved, stamped and sewn leather notebook cover with Laszlo Rideg, 13-14 April
- Vernacular furniture making with Robert Geddes, 13 April
- SAORI weaving with Prue Simmons, 17 April
- Introduction to traditional signwriting with Greg Chandler, 19-21 April
- Locksmithing with Aaron Smith, 20 April
- Basic armouring with Robert Hayes, 27 April
- Traditional straw plaiting with Elizabeth Woodroofe, 27 April
