Adrian
Adrian is a traditional whip maker, carefully cutting and braiding leather by hand to sustain one of Australia’s enduring rural crafts.
Deb & Bien
Deb & Bien are artisan brownie makers who elevate a humble classic through precise ratios, careful temperature control and small-batch discipline, where texture and balance define the craft.
Meade & Mason
Working with traditional tools and time-honoured techniques, Meade & Mason restore antique furniture with restraint and precision, honouring history while stewarding each piece into the future.
Michael Green
Michael Green is a Brisbane-based wig maker specialising in traditional hand-tied techniques for theatre and performance. Working strand by strand on fine lace foundations, he creates period styling and character transformations that honour the discipline and heritage of this rare craft.
Kate Fletcher
In her Tasmanian backyard studio, Kate Fletcher creates colour from leaves, bark and windfallen branches. Working intuitively rather than by strict formula, she scatters plant material across cloth, binds it into bundles and lowers it into simmering dye pots. The colours that emerge – soft yellows, smoky greys, warm pinks and leaf-shaped imprints – reflect the season, the weather and the nature of each plant.
For Kate, natural dyeing is a collaboration with the landscape. “You’re painting with plants,” she says. “The beauty is in the surprise.”
Daniel & Piper
Books & Boxes is one of the last places in Queensland where books are still made and repaired by hand. Master binder Daniel brings decades of experience to the craft, restoring damaged volumes and creating new bindings through traditional techniques. Working beside him is Piper, an apprentice learning the rhythm, patience and precision of bookbinding.
Their studio preserves a heritage practice that is rapidly disappearing, showing that handmade books still have a place — as objects of meaning, memory and care.
Alicia Mora Igra
Originally from Chile, Alicia discovered umbrella making in the 1970s under a Polish master artisan who trained her in the traditional European methods. She inherited not only his knowledge, but also the historic German and English presses, drills and sewing machines that still shape every umbrella she creates.