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THE ever-popular Lost Trades Fair is back throughout the Labour Day long weekend, promising the usual eclectic collection of makers, artisans, tradespeople and craftspeople – some of whom have been practising their enterprise for over sixty years.<\/p>\n

Glen Rundell, traditional Windsor chairmaker and festival co-founder, said Lost Trades was first held in Kyneton, where it was noticed there was a high concentration of artisans of all walks of life.<\/p>\n

“I saw a lot of other traditional tradespeople who were in the same boat (as me), practising a seldom practised craft for which there was no longer any membership body to support them,” he said<\/p>\n

“Individually they had no voice, so we thought it would be wonderful to have a guild or an association of seldom practised trades and crafts.<\/p>\n

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Lost Trades Fair takes place from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“Eventually, we had enough members to run a fair.”<\/p>\n

The first event had 7500 attend, the second 15,000 and, as Rundell explained, organisers outgrew the racetrack in Kyneton and moved it to Bendigo.<\/p>\n

He said if you want to see how things have been created in some cases for millennia, there isn’t anything that comes close to what can be gained from spending a couple of days at the fair.<\/p>\n

“It really is the place for inspiration and to see how things are made with passion, due care and attention, and made with a vision to be heirloom quality products,” he said<\/p>\n

The Lost Trades Fair takes place from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 March at the Bendigo Racecourse.<\/p>\n

A free shuttle service will run to and from the Bendigo train station between 9.30am and 4.30pm all weekend.<\/p>\n

Get tickets via trybooking.com\/events\/landing\/1283799.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE ever-popular Lost Trades Fair is back throughout the Labour Day long weekend, promising the usual eclectic collection of makers, artisans, tradespeople and craftspeople – some of whom have been practising their enterprise for over sixty years. Glen Rundell, traditional Windsor chairmaker and festival co-founder, said Lost Trades was first held in Kyneton, where it […]<\/p>\n

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