Tag: Southern Cross Registry

Red List of Endangered Crafts

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 27, 2026

The UK tracks its vanishing heritage skills like endangered species — 72 critically endangered, one extinct since 2022. Australia has no equivalent list.

Tags Australian craft sector, craft succession, Creative Women’s Association, deckle-making, Endangered Crafts Fund, Gathering Circles, Heritage Crafts, heritage skill extinction, National Endangered Skills and Trades Show, Red List of Endangered Crafts, Southern Cross Registry

The Numbers Are In

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 15, 2026

A landmark ARC-funded study confirms the Australian craft economy employs 116,538 people and generates $19.2 billion in gross value added — larger than the sports economy. The Creative Women’s Association examines what the data confirms, what it doesn’t yet build, and why the infrastructure gap it identifies is exactly what CWA and the Australian Crafts Alliance are working to close.

Tags ARC research, AU-EU Free Trade Agreement, Australian craft economy, Australian Crafts Alliance, CIGI, craft and industrial products, craft skills, craft workforce, CWA, DFAT, geographical indications, industrial craft, Luckman Tower UniSA, makers, making in Australia, provenance, Southern Cross Registry, sovereign manufacturing

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The Hands That Built Prosperity

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date May 26, 2026

Neuroscience confirms that 75% of the human brain was built for the work women’s hands have always done. The Creative Women’s Association has built the pay scale, the provenance registry, and the certification mark to turn that work into verified, premium, market-ready economic activity. The virtuous cycle of prosperity is available. The infrastructure exists. Here’s how it works.

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The Hallmark .

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date May 22, 2026

The British hallmarking system is 725 years old, still mandatory, and in 2025 was absorbed directly into the UK government because it is too essential to trade and consumer protection to operate at arm’s length. The CWA Brief Board and Southern Cross Registry apply the same principle to Australian cultural production now — so the commissioned work of 2026 becomes the verified antique of 2076.

Tags Brief Board CWA, British Hallmarking Council, Creative Women’s Association, cultural commission marketplace, cultural work and provenance, CWA, Digital Product Passport, EU geographical indications craft, hallmark provenance, hallmarking system history, provenance, provenance Australia, Southern Cross Mark, Southern Cross Registry, verified cultural production

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The Southern Cross Mark

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date May 7, 2026

Digital Product Passports become mandatory for EU textile imports in 2028. A DPP is only as credible as the provenance data behind it — and Australia needs a registry. The Southern Cross Mark and Registry, administered by CWA, is the verified provenance infrastructure Australian cloth producers need now, before the mandate takes effect.

Tags A-EU Free Trade Agreement, atma.io, Australian cloth, Australian cloth provenance, Australian craft certification, Australian mills, Australian textile provenance, Australian wool, Avery Dennison, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural provenance, cultural work and provenance, cultural work sector, CWA, Digital Product Passport, Donegal Tweed, DPP mandatory, DPP textiles, EU Ecodesign regulation, EU market access 2028, EUDR, fibre to cloth, fibre to fashion, geographical indications Australia, Harris Tweed, Heritage Skills, Penelope Thomas, Provenance & Certification, provenance Australia, provenance economy, Provenance Rights, Retraced, Southern Cross Mark, Southern Cross Registry, Supply Chain Transparency, textile manufacturing Australia, textile supply chain, textile traceability, TrusTrace, verified provenance, weavers Australia, Woolmark