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Heritage Hands – Supporting Craft Heritage

Heritage Hands is a creative project and brand dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and preserving traditional arts, crafts, and trades that are at risk of being forgotten. At its core, it’s about people and stories – the artisans who keep these skills alive, their lived experiences, and the cultural knowledge passed through generations.

Artisans

Alicia Mora Igra

Originally from Chile, Alicia discovered umbrella making in the 1970s under a Polish master artisan who trained her in the traditional European methods. She inherited not only his knowledge, but also the historic German and English presses, drills and sewing machines that still shape every umbrella she creates. [...]

Daniel & Piper

Books & Boxes is one of the last places in Queensland where books are still made and repaired by hand. Master binder Daniel brings decades of experience to the craft, restoring damaged volumes and creating new bindings through traditional techniques. Working beside him is Piper, an apprentice learning the rhythm, [...]

Kate Fletcher

In her Tasmanian backyard studio, Kate Fletcher creates colour from leaves, bark and windfallen branches. Working intuitively rather than by strict formula, she scatters plant material across cloth, binds it into bundles and lowers it into simmering dye pots. The colours that emerge - soft yellows, smoky greys, warm pinks [...]
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Events

Heritage Hands: A Solo Exhibition by Melissa Hoedel

Heritage Hands premieres at Et Al Gallery in February 2026, showcasing eight artisans whose endangered crafts reveal the beauty, skill and cultural significance of handmade traditions. Through large-format portraiture and intimate process imagery, the exhibition preserves the knowledge held in the hands of Australia’s last umbrella maker, bookbinders, natural dyers [...]