Lost Trades Fair

Lost arts, rare trades and heritage crafts are celebrated and shared at this event. It is a weekend of inspiration, talent, time honoured skills and shared culture at the iconic Hanging Rock, in Victoria's Macedon Ranges.

Throughout the weekend, you can meet the makers, watch demonstrations of how things are made, sit down to watch staged artisan presentations giving you an insight into design, teaching, training and what it takes to be a world class maker. Over 160 makers from around the globe will share and demonstrate their skills and trades.

Meet blacksmiths, stonemasons, coopers, silversmiths. Makers of tools, machinery, furniture, musical instruments, clothing and shoes. Leather workers, woodworkers, fine artists and decorative trades, painters, glass blowers, lead-lighters and pigment makers. Tailors, spinners, weavers, basketry and textile trades.

The Lost Trades Fair will inspire and educate visitors to think about sustainability and the longevity of what they use and show first-hand what people can do with practice, passion and knowledge.

Plan your road trip, pack a picnic, explore the rock and witness over 1,000 combined years of experience, all in one place. Tickets are available online until sold out. Tickets are not available at the gate. The Lost Trades Fair is exclusive to Victoria and is supported by the Victorian State Government.