The Lost Trades Fair celebrated its ten-year anniversary this year at Bendigo Racecourse. Glen and Lisa Rundell organised artisans to come together to relish craftsmanship, heritage crafts and inter-generational knowledge. Toolmakers, ropemakers, locksmiths, wheelwrights, chairmakers, coopers, carvers, fly-fishing rod makers, pipe makers, luthiers, hatters, weavers, leatherworkers, gunsmiths, bootmakers and bookbinders—just to name a few, of the over 150 makers represented.
I arrived on Saturday morning, roughly an hour after the gates opened. Already the thronging crowd were six-deep at the entrance stalls, testing the 15,000 person event capacity. Near
