Local craft. Global reach.

You make it. We protect it.

Whatever you make is worth protecting.

Louise Bourgeois began by restoring tapestries in her parents’ workshop in Paris. She went on to become one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. Her hands were the foundation of everything that followed.

What CWA is building is the infrastructure that should have always existed for women like her — and for women like you. A system that recognises what your hands produce, records who made it, and ensures that value flows back to the maker.

Whether you weave, throw pots, tool leather, blow glass, make lace, or carve wood — CWA membership puts your work on the record. Permanently.

What’s included in your membership

Six things that come with joining CWA.

Even into the European Union

The Digital Product Passport. On your swing tag.

From mid-2028, every textile sold into European Union markets must carry a Digital Product Passport — independently verified supply chain data that a buyer can scan at point of sale. It tells them exactly what the garment or piece is made from, who made it, and where.

CWA’s provenance certification system is built to be EU Digital Product Passport compliant from day one. Your Registered Provenance Credential — the QR code you receive for every certified piece — links directly to your verified entry in the Southern Cross Registry. That is your Digital Product Passport. On your swing tag. Scannable anywhere in the world.

Makers who register now are building that record already. Those who do not register before the deadline will not have it.

Membership tiers

Choose the membership that fits your practice.

All memberships include a Unique Provenance Identifier, the Southern Cross Seal, a Marketplace storefront, and entry into the Australian Geographical Indications Directory for Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works. The first six months are free for all Practitioner memberships.

All prices are indicative and in AUD. Confirmed pricing is available at registration. No lock-in contracts.

Get your craft on the map

The Australian Geographical Indications Directory for Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works.

The Australian Geographical Indications Directory for Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works is the national record that maps where Australian cultural production happens — who makes what, where, using what technique, in what tradition.

Every CWA member is listed in the Directory from the day they register. Your entry documents your practice, your provenance chain, and your location — building the evidentiary record that Australia’s GI framework under the AU-EU Free Trade Agreement will draw on. The makers who register now are the ones who will be in that record when it matters.

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Local craft.
Global reach.

Whatever you make, wherever you are in Australia — join the Southern Cross Registry. First six months free.

Creative Women’s Association · Southern Cross Registry · ABN 54 693 315 043