Cork Craft Month: Get creative, have fun and learn a new skill

Lovers of crafted domestic wares, expertly shaped by skilled makers, are in for a treat in August in Cork city and county 

Bernadette Tuite, ceramicist and chairperson of Cork Craft & Design; Jade Hogan, co-owner of Mr Kite Textiles, and Siobhain Steele showing and demonstrating their craft. Picture: Darragh Kane

Lovers of crafted domestic wares, expertly and lovingly shaped by skilled makers, are in for the annual treat of Cork Craft Month during August, bringing together the best of Cork’s crafting and design traditions.

It is organised, as always, by Cork Craft & Design, a social enterprise and membership organisation set up to promote craft makers living in Cork city and county, whose operations manager Enid Conway says: “It’s all about amplifying craft, the story-telling involved and the makers, and we want people to get involved in a tactile way.”