Lost Trades Fair 8-10 March
I’ll be set up in a 7x3.5m wall tent at the Lost Trades Fair this year, in Bendigo, 8-10 March 2025. Showing waxed canvas, sheepskin vests, wool coats and pants, a few bumbags and making wool mittens and cloaks. Here’s a short video looking at what I’ve made for the Fair.
It’s an outstanding annual event in Australia. Lisa and Glen Rundell do an amazing job curating the show with quite an incredible selection of artisans and craftspeople working in rare and obscure techniques.
Ticket prices are very affordable with enough going on to easily fill a day or two of curiosity.
The old Singer 201 treadle machine will be there, sewing wool mittens and hoodies. I’ll demonstrate waxing of canvas too.
“If you actually visited every artisan, you would have less than 4 minutes with each one over the 7 hour day. Coopers will make buckets, bootmakers will be demonstrating boot making, fine artists will be painting alongside printmakers, bookbinders and leatherworkers. Clay pots thrown, porcelain cast, spinners and weavers will demonstrate, glass melted and leadlights created, Fly fishing rods cast, whips cracked, puppets made, chair makers will have shave-horses and be shaving spindles, turners will have lathes operating, soap will be made, candles dipped, knives made and stone walls built, pigments will be ground, denim jeans constructed, wool dyed, whips plaited, instruments made, keys cut, clocks assembled - all onsite - on all days.”
