Bendigo bound: Lost Trades Fair 2022

Bespoke cricket bat makers, Sherwood Bats, will be amongst artisans featuring at Lost Trades Bendigo in March.

The 2022 Lost Trades Fair at the Bendigo Racecourse be the first fair back since March 2020 where more than 20,000 wandered freely around this captivating artisan lead event and were inspired by more than 200 traditional makers – demonstrating and sharing their skills over the last weekend before Covid shut everything down.

But they're back – full of inspiration and enthusiasm, artisans are coming from across Australia, from far north Queensland to south eastern Tasmania. Attracting a combined audience of 150,000+ visitors since 2014, the Lost Trades Fair aims to inspire and to educate. It invites people to think about sustainability and the longevity of what they buy and use, and to show them what people can do with practice, proper instruction and learned skill.

The Lost Trades Fair was founded on the principle that people are fascinated when talented craftspeople openly demonstrate and share their incredible skills and knowledge. Woodworkers and blacksmiths work alongside bookbinders and whip plaiters. Chairmakers, ropemakers, signwriters and toy makers join makers of rocking horses and penny farthings to show you how things are made. Ancient and arcane trades are on show; stonemasons, knifemakers, clockmakers, potters, leatherworkers and guilders who have been practising their trades for their whole life will give visitors an insight into what makes their trades so important to pass on.

The event will take place March 19 and 20, 2022. Learn more here.