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Southern Cross Registry · Gathering Circle Network
Registered studios, guilds, and organisations across Australia — connected to the Southern Cross system. Find the one nearest you, come and make, and get your work into the world.
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Find your people
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Use your hands
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Grow your craft
Search by suburb, postcode, state or practice
The network is growing.
Search above to find Gathering Circles and studios in your area. Affiliated Circles are CWA registered partners. Studios not yet affiliated are shown so you can request CWA reach out to them.
Register Your Guild or Studio →No Gathering Circles found in that area yet. Register your studio, or contact CWA and we’ll help you find one nearby.
For makers
Whether or not there’s a Gathering Circle near you yet — you can register now as a CWA practitioner, receive your Unique Provenance Identifier, and open your own verified storefront in the Southern Cross Marketplace.
Your UPI is permanent. Your storefront is live from day one. Your work — certified, provenance-verified, EU-ready — visible to buyers, galleries, designers, and institutions across Australia and internationally.
Paid work — for registered makers
Open Commissions is where designers and brands post paid briefs for made-to-order Australian cloth and cultural goods — a specific colourway, a weight, a weave structure, a run of ceramic pieces. Registered makers browse the briefs, submit a proposal, and get paid at real rates.
You need a UPI to apply. Registration takes five minutes. The commissions are waiting.
Register to Apply for Commissions →What Open Commissions gives you
Paid briefs from verified buyers — no cold selling, no markets, no chasing invoices
Work in your own time, from your own space — you choose which briefs to propose on
Rates benchmarked above the Textile Award floor
Southern Cross Mark on every piece you deliver — certified, QR-coded, EU-ready
For studios and guilds
Register your guild, studio, or teaching space as a CWA Affiliated Gathering Circle. You bring the space and the skill — we bring the members, the income, and the certification infrastructure. Your 50% share of every Connected Member fee distributes automatically. We build this together.
