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Craft Hatch Incubator Market

 		 Craft Victoria is pleased to be partnering with the City of Melbourne's, City Library to hold Craft Hatch – an incubator market that showcases the work of student and emerging designers. Craft Hatch is a rare opportunity for you to purchase the freshest, hand-made products direct from the designer; including homewares, jewellery, clothing, accessories, stationery and more.

Craft Hatch is held one Saturday a month at the City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 11.00am – 4.00pm. Upcoming Craft Hatch diary dates are Saturdays 14 February, 14 March and 4 April 2009.

Registrations for the 2009 February, March and April markets have closed.

Registrations for mid-year markets are now open to students and emerging designers looking to build their market confidence in one of Melbourne's busiest CBD retail precincts. The City Library is the centre for learning and creativity with up to 3000 visitors a day.

For further information on Craft Hatch click here and to register click here. For more information, email market@craftvic.asn.au.
Featured stallholders  

Box Hill TAFE
These nine students, at the beginning of their jewellery careers, are focusing on contemporary jewellery made from precious and non precious materials, metal; silver, copper, brass, gem stones, acrylic and found objects.
February, March, April
 
Ellka Design (Ellen Kocjancic)
Ellen has practiced traditional crafts such as sewing, knitting and embroidery since childhood, and in the last year has applied her craft skills to jewellery design and manufacture. She is now experimenting with embedding drawings in resin pieces such as bangles, cuffs and pendants.
March, April
 
Fontok (Myf Kemp)
Fontok is Myf's backyard design practice in which she delights in finding new uses for overlooked or elapsed consumer goods from the recent past. Her products include an assortment of quirky toys and whimsical home wares.
February, March, April
Moj Habibi
Moj's pottery works are wheel thrown, using a dark firing, textured, iron rich clay. She focuses on the contrasting relationship between the dark form and a surface.
February, March
 

Jen Hall
Jen has a background in textiles and screenprint and is always drawn towards texture, irregular patterns and layers. She likes to do odd things with colours and contrast photographic images with handmade processes and simple materials. Right now she LOVES plywood.
March, April
 
Deirdre Hoban
Deirdre loves experimenting with different materials; current obsession is casting colourful objects in porcelain which she makes into a range of jewellery pieces. At Craft Hatch she will be selling necklaces, rings and brooches in porcelain and or silver as well as a few surprises!
March
 
Janine Kleynhans
Janine's work is an absolute labour of love. Each piece is made with respect and passion. She only works with gemstones, since she loves the richness in meaning and history they hold. This is also her inspiration.
February
 
La Petite Poulette (Christiane Poulos)
La Petite Poulette is a small home-based business in Carlton North, creating handcrafted leather and fabric handbags using high quality hides and rare vintage and designer print fabrics.
February, April

Elena Low
Driven by a high-sustainability agenda, Elena explores recycled material samples as raw materials to create unique one-off pieces.
April
 
Amina McPhee
Amina's significant experience in jewellery is evident in her metal creations, hand-cut to ensure that the natural characteristics and individuality are retained.
April
Mixmasha (Tasha Hassapis)
Through a passion for making, exploring methods for construction, and the joy of working with buttons, Tasha passionately creates jewellery pieces which she sells at market stalls and online under the name of “Mixmasha.”
March
 
Moose and Me (Kim McGeachin)
Moose and Me is a recently established company creating hand made screen printed stationery and interiors. Each product in the Moose and Me range is 100% handmade, most featuring 2 colour screen prints on high quality Japanese papers.
March, April
 

Julia Musgrove
Julia spends her days creating lovely softies, jewellery, accessories, clothing, and anything else that takes her fancy.
March
Matt Nicholls

April
Orchis Morio (Lisa Engelhardt)
Orchis Morio evolved from a love of the natural and the grotesque in our world.  Using a combination of hand drawn, digital and screen-printing techniques to create textile designs, Orchis Morio particularly loves playing with organic, textured and botanical forms.
March
 
Pezimystic (Penny Walker-Keefe)
Pezi’ aims to bring non-sweatshop, non-mass produced, lovingly made products to the people. Products include dresses, bags and cushions, made using mostly recycled materials, and handmade in Melbourne.
April
 

Polka Dot Rabbit (Cate Lawrence)
Polka Dot Rabbit was launched in 2007 by Cate Lawrence. Cate strives to reclaim materials and once loved objects and re-craft them into goodies which can be loved all over again...
February, March
Catherine Preston
Catherine has a love of working with the found object but also a passion for forging and creating organic shapes by hand, and will soon begin her Masters of Fine Arts in Metals and Jewellery at Monash University.
February, March
 
Rhiannon Smith
Much of Rhiannon's work aims to challenge the common perceptions of what is ‘precious’ through an experimental use of common materials and techniques. 
April
Studio Hip
Studio Hip creates pieces that are multi-functional, thus suiting the needs of the changing circumstances of people's lives. Pieces to be sold at the market will be timber based products and will be small enough to carry home.
February
 

Samantha Thompson
Samantha has just brought out a handmade stationary range using handmade paper, fabric and handmade felt, called Yum Yum: Naturally yummy stationary.
February, April
Brittany Veitch
Although an Industrial Designer by trade, Brittany is a Toy Maker at heart, influenced by macabre and kooky humour. She makes designer handsewn toys and curios using handmade felt and vintage fabrics.
April
 
Vince (Meaghan Barbuto)
Created in 2007 by Meaghan Barbuto, Vince fuses traditional methods of antique letterpress coupled with modern technology and cutting-edge design to creates unique, handcrafted cards, stationery, invitations, wine labels, notebooks, business cards, note paper, writing sets and all things paper.
February, March