Recognise & organise
Create the legal, statistical, coordination, provenance and CIGI foundations.
Seventeen actions for national capability.
The report moves from recognition and data to infrastructure, skills, provenance, regional development, research and international engagement.
From evidence to implementation
07.3Mapping 2026 · Recommendations
From mapping to implementation.
The recommendations establish the sector definition and national evidence base; improve classification and recognition; connect practitioner, product and place records; support GIs and producer readiness; strengthen skills, conservation and transmission; and build Centres and shared infrastructure.
They also connect enterprise development, productive capability, research, innovation, procurement, international participation and durable national coordination.
Report basisMapping Australia’s Crafts Sector 2026 · Section 19, Recommendations 1–17.
Assess, protect & transmit
Build craftsmanship assessment, market integrity, ICIP, endangered-craft monitoring, skills recognition and transmission.
Produce, connect & innovate
Strengthen enterprise, Centres, textiles, digital interoperability, international participation and a Craft × Innovation program.