Revealed: Why August is the time to get crafty in Cork

Home Editor Eve Kelliher previews Cork Craft Month — a fun, fascinating festival designed to fuel imaginations 

Weaver Sabina Lucas, above, right, wooden toy maker and chair of Cork Craft & Design Board Michael Whyte of Ro Óg Ltd, and makers (clockwise from left), Sabina Lucas, John Bastow, Fernanda Schneider, and Diana Skalkos (front), with Cork Craft Month team members Jade Hogan (left), Niamh Hughes (back), and Ava Hayes (right). Pictures: Michael O'Sullivan/OSM

To play Penelope in The Odyssey, Anne Hathaway mastered the ancient craft of weaving in real life. The skill is the main thread behind the character’s famous mythic ruse: Penelope tells the suitors swarming her Ithacan island queendom that she must complete a burial shroud before remarrying — then secretly unravels the work at night to buy time for her husband Odysseus’s return.

Crafty or what?