mattt | handmade in melbourne

We will be in Sydney this week for the Powerhouse Museum Youngblood Designers Market.

This is part of Sydney Design 08 (SD08) and will run from Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th.

Visit the markets website here for further details.

See you there …

We will be part of an Open Studio Event on the 28th and 29th of August.

This event is part of Craft Victoria’s ‘A Month About Making’, and over thirty studios in the Nicholas Building will be involved

The buildiong will be open from 5 to 9pm on both the Thursday and Friday nights.

We are very happy to announce that we’ve just added gift vouchers to the website.

This makes it very easy to give a bag as a gift to friends and family and ensure that they can choose the perfect bag for themselves.

They can also be personalised with a special message or greeting and can be emailed or printed as a standard 4” x 6” digital photo.

The gift vouchers can be used on the online store, or through a weekend market stall.

We’ve just added an overview page to the bag section of the website.

This has ben added to make it much easier to compare each style and get a clearer idea of the size and features of each different bag.

Further details of each style are available on the individual pages including the fabrics that are available.

Of course, let us know if you have any suggestions of other pages or information you think would be helpful.

A fantastic selection of fabrics have just been added to the website.

The new charcoal colourways of both the ‘birch forest’ and ‘riverside adventures’’ designs by Lara Cameron are now available.

Along with a limited quantity of her ‘wild geese’ and ‘bonsai forest’ designs in rust red, and the ‘ginkgo leaf’ design in green.

You might also notice that we’ve added a new digital print, ‘bold waves’, which is a very subtle design based on a traditional japanese woodcut design.

Each of these designs are available in each style of bag.

We were featured in The Sunday Age last Sunday.

The article in M Magazine by Jayne D’Arcy focused on local designers directly inspired by Melbourne.

The ‘melbourne map’ design by local illustrator Michelle Mackintosh was shown along with details of the photographic Nicholas Building digital prints.

The latest collaboration in the ginkgo leaf series has just been added to the website.

Two exclusive colourways in this very popular Lara Cameron design have been printed on a heavy 100% hemp canvas basecloth.

These fabrics are printed in a deep rust red and a pumpkin orange which offset the natural, undyed basecloth.

Only a limited amount has been produced so be sure to have a look before they are gone forever.

A small number of shoulderbags are also available at Craft Victoria and Five Boroughs.

We’ve just delivered a great range of new bags with Lara Cameron fabrics to Five Boroughs in East Brunswick.

There are now some larger shoulderbags in both the blue and green ginkgo leaf designs and a birch forest in a notebook backpack.

They also have a range of our brand new zipper compact shoulderbags in green ginkgo leaf and birch forest .

Hello and welcome to our brand new website.

Here you will find all the latest product and fabric information along with our online store.

Feel free to sign up to our brand new email newslettter, which will be sent out somewhat regularly with details of special events, new products and special offers.

Please let us know If you encounter any problems whatsoever, or just have a great idea of how things can be improved.