Casting call: Artist invites former Youghal Carpets workers to help celebrate Cork company

Youghal Carpets was famous for supplying materials which carpeted the palace of the Sultan of Brunei and casinos in Las Vegas

Artist Katie Nolan (right) at Greywood Arts in Killeagh with ex-workers from Youghal Carpets and their families.

An artist needs a hand — well, 42 hands to be exact — to help commemorate the legacy of one of Ireland’s great textile firms.

Visual artist Katie Nolan has invited former workers of Youghal Carpets in Cork to attend a special hand-casting event on Saturday as part of a novel multi-disciplinary arts project which aims to remember and record the legacy of the former carpets company which closed 22 years ago with the loss of hundreds of jobs.