Southern Cross Registry · Creative Women’s Association
Get your Unique
Provenance Identifier
Your UPI is your permanent verified identity as an Australian maker. Issued once. Held for life. The foundation of everything the Southern Cross System gives you.
EU Digital Product Passport compliance mandatory for Australian textile exporters from mid-2028 · Register now. Your provenance chain begins today.
Four questions. Answered plainly.
Everything a maker needs to know
before registering.
What your UPI unlocks
One registration.
A permanent verified record.
The Southern Cross Seal
Applied to every piece you make through the Southern Cross System. Scannable. Verifiable. The hallmark that proves your work is what it claims to be.
EU compliance readiness
From mid-2028, EU law requires independently verified supply chain data on every textile sold in Europe. Register now and your provenance chain is ready. CWA transmits your data automatically to every downstream Digital Product Passport platform.
Southern Cross Marketplace
Your verified practitioner storefront. Browse and submit proposals for Open Commissions. Sell your work to individual buyers, institutions, tourist centres, galleries, and museums.
Geographical Indication alignment
The EU extended Geographical Indication protection to craft and industrial products on 1 December 2025. Makers who register now are building the evidentiary record the AU-EU Free Trade Agreement framework will require.
Rights when brands use your story
When a brand uses your provenance story commercially, a Provenance Rights Brand Licence is required. Royalties flow automatically back to you along the production chain.
Paid cultural commissions
Browse and submit proposals for Open Commissions — paid cultural work commissions open to verified practitioners on the Southern Cross Marketplace.
Digital Product Passport Australia
Why CWA is
Australia’s answer.
A Digital Product Passport tells you what a product is made of.
A CWA UPI tells you who made it — and proves it.
Most Digital Product Passport platforms are logistics documents. They do not record who made it, where in Australia they work, or whether the claim is independently verified. A brand can generate a QR code pointing to a webpage they wrote themselves.
The Southern Cross Registry is Australia’s only independent provenance certification authority for makers of textiles, crafts, and cultural goods. Every credential is traceable to a verified maker in a real place — not a brand claim.
CWA has issued its first Registered Provenance Credential — RPC-2026-0001 — live and verifiable now.
Digital Product Passport · In practice
This is what a verified
provenance record looks like.
Scan the QR code on any Southern Cross Marketplace product and this is what you see — the complete provenance chain, from paddock to your hands, verified and permanent.
The physical hang tag
Every product listed on the Southern Cross Marketplace carries a verified hang tag. The QR code links to the full provenance record.
The digital journey
Scan the QR and the full story opens — the wool grower, the maker, the material, the place. Verified. Permanent. Yours.
See a live verified credential
Click here to see the journey →RPC-2026-0001 · Plaid Cape | Moonlight Serenade · PennyJane · Geelong, Victoria
The EU regulation timeline
Australia has 30 months.
CWA is the system.
How to get your UPI
Four steps. Less than 20 minutes.
Is my work eligible
Under EU Regulation 2023/2411 —
the framework CWA aligns with.
Craft and industrial products are eligible if they are produced entirely by hand, with manual or digital tools where human skill is significant, or mechanically where manual work is significant in at least one stage of production.
Entirely by hand — no machinery involved in the production of the piece
With manual or digital tools — where human skill and contribution is significant
Mechanically, where manual work is significant in at least one stage of production
Eligible categories include: textiles · lace · natural stone · woodwork · jewellery · cutlery · glass · porcelain · leather goods · and all eight CWA canonical categories
To qualify for Geographical Indication protection your work must meet three criteria:
A strong connection to its geographical origin — the place, region, or area in Australia where it was produced
A quality, reputation, or characteristic linked to that specific place — regional tradition, local materials, community practice
At least one stage of production carried out in the specified area — spinning, weaving, firing, forging, finishing
Based on EU Regulation 2023/2411 · Entered into force 1 December 2025
Register now.
Your provenance chain begins today.
Australia has 30 months before the EU Digital Product Passport deadline. The AU-EU Free Trade Agreement commits Australia to a Geographical Indication framework that does not yet exist. The Southern Cross Registry is that infrastructure. Every maker who registers now is building the record that will matter.
Every link. Every hand. Every story.
Read the full step-by-step application guide →CWA Practitioner Membership · Southern Cross Registry · ABN 54 693 315 043