The biggest and best craft fair in the Southern Hemisphere is on again in the scenic and delightfull Deloraine, Tasmania from Friday 3 November to Monday 6 November. Come and see four days of Australia's best arts and crafts

•  Intriguing, intricately-made cabinets from the best Danish cabinet-makers.
• Stunning, hand-dyed wall-hanging from the Tasmanian Craft Fair's Featured Artist, Jackey's Marsh weaver Jim Deghand.
• The silhouettes of Tassie's Cradle mountain in glass from Emerging Artist' glassmaker Peter LeBatchelor of Mole Creek.
• The newest in ideas-based furniture made of Tasmania's rare timbers by Tasmania's elite Furniture School students.
• Shop for the best range of Christmas presents you'll ever see - all in one picturesque Tasmanian country town - Deloraine, all made by talented craftspeople.
And grab a bite to eat as you go... pancakes with fresh Tasmanian berry sauces, Cajun calamari, Tassie lamb kebabs. it's Tasmania's clean, green food at its best!

Dates  |  Times  |  Admission

Dated: 3-6 Nov. 2006.
Fri., Sat, and Sun 9am - 5pm.
Mon. 9am - 4pm.
Free shuttle bus service between venues.
Adults - $10.   Children 10 to 16 - $5.   Children under 10 - free.   2 Day ticket - $15.

12 fantastic venues, 200 incredible stalls, great activities for kids, rewarding shopping for adults at The Tasmanian Craft fair!

Highlights

Danish Cabinet Makers:
Ten cabinets all of the same basic dimensions made by ten Danes from the Danish Association of Cabinetmakers. How different could they be?
From the outside they look similarly blond-timbered - and their names all end in "skab", the Danish word for cabinet and fellowship. But open up each cabinet and similarity abruptly ends.

These cabinets were made for the tenth anniversary of the Association of Cabinetmakers in 2002. Each craftsperson has poured their individuality into cabinets of maple and walnut and sycamore and cherry and walnut. Morskab is a cabinet for motherhood, a profile of a pregnant woman on the outside - and inside, a woman's face.
Craftsman Martin Dahl's cabinet is "a tribute to the mothers of my sons". Galskab is deceptively simple outside and a maze of intricacy inside. Gal is the Danish word for crazy says its maker, Teis Dich Abrahamsen: "Mechanics and craft in one crazy combination".

Each of these cabinets will absorb and intrigue you, as will an added offering: a technically-brilliant chair containing 27 types of join. See their website for further details
Visit the Danes at the Tasmanian Craft Fair. You'll be amazed.

Following we have some images of the Danish Association of Cabinetmakers:
Images 1 - 6 - Copenhagen exhibition, Denmark 2003
Images 7 - 11 - Oslo exhibition, Norway 2005



Featured Artist:
Weaver Jim Deghand lives in remote Jackey's Marsh, collecting leaves, bark and lichen to dye the wool he weaves into stunning rugs and wall-hangings in the richest of nature's hues.
His loom is huge and complex - just as complex as the man who moved across the world from South Dakota in the 1970's and found himself caught up in Tasmania's back-to the-land self-sufficiency movement.

The Deloraine flower-power hippies of that era have come and gone, but Jim stayed, weaving the beauty of the natural environment into his rugs.
Tasmania's State Library and the National Gallery in Canberra have his work, as does the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston Tasmania.
He says: "The act of weaving is absorbing. I like the design work, I like the repetitive patterns. I am entranced by the idea of starting with raw fleece and taking it through to the finished, woven product."

Following we have some images of Jim Deghart at work:
Image 1 - Jim Deghart amongst his artwork.
Image 2 - artwork example
Image 3 - artwork example
Image 4 - Jim at his weaving loom



Emerging Artist:
Peter LeBatchelor's icon is Tasmania's Cradle Mountain; he never tires of representing it in the light-reflecting glass which is his medium. Since the age of 17 as an apprentice glazier in Invercargill New Zealand, he has doggedly pursued the goal of re-creating his environment in glass, fusing and slumping to create his distinctive castings.
"I live on one of the most beautiful pieces of premium real estate in Tasmania. I'm not a sea-change person - I love the forests, mountains and streams", Peter says.
"I love Cradle Mountain with its jagged, Gothic contours; it's a unique land-form that lends itself beautifully to sculpture."

Following we have some images of Peter LeBatchelor and his work:
Image 1 - Peter LeBachelor.
Image 2 - artwork example - Cradles
Image 3 - artwork example - Cradle Mt with tiger stripes

Venue

This information will be presented soon.

Where to Eat

Venue 1 - Community Centre:
  • Velocci Coffee Carts - coffee, hot chocolate, tea cookies
  • Tio Rico - Mexican food & drinks
  • Soft Serve Ice-cream - delicious ice-creams of all sorts

Venue 5 - Community Complex:
  • Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm - raspberry waffle cones, cheesecake, sauces, choc-coated raspberries, hot drinks & cookies
  • Velocci Coffee Carts - coffee, hot chocolate, tea cookies
  • Apex Club of Deloraine - steak sandwiches, hamburgers, chips, donuts, tea & coffee
  • Lions Club of Deloraine - hamburgers, fairy floss, cold drinks
  • Country Catering - soups, roasts, salads, sandwiches, baguettes, home made cakes & slices, fruit salad & pavs, tea & coffee, soft drinks.

Venue 7 - Showground:
    "to be announced"

Venue 8 - Rotary Park:
  • Tas Game & Gourmet - souvlaki, bbq game ostrich, wallaby, venison, buffalo, scallops, chicken, salmon
  • Glennroys - espresso coffee, tea, milk shakes
  • Bilambil Berry Farm - pancakes with blueberry, raspberry or maple syrup toppings & ice-cream
  • Original oven-Baked Tasmanian - potatoes baked potatoes with butter, bacon, sour cream, cheese & coleslaw
  • Hildas kitchen - international cuisine
  • Tasmanian Lamb Specialties - egg & bacon roll, gypsy roll, limburger, lamb wrap, chicken wrap
  • The Creamery - gelato & milk shakes

Venue Maps

The venues of last year was so successful in its layout and function that we have laid it out the same way this year. We have 12 fantastic venues, 200 incredible stalls this year for you and your friends.

We have, for your convenience, a layout of our venues as a downloadable .pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader - which is a free download, to read the file.
Please follow through on the following link to download your map of the venues.

Media

This information will be presented soon, but in the meantime, we have out Tamanian Craft Fair-2006 poster to share with you. If you'd like a copy (file size - 1.5Mb), you can download the .pdf file here.

The 2006 TCF poster:

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