To mark International Women's Day in March, an arts and crafts fair was held in the city, with all the items made and sold by women.

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The street buzzes on Friday mornings, the start of the Israeli weekend, with people brunching, shopping and scoping out the arts-and-crafts fair in the courtyard of the alternative Adam Waldorf School.

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Perhaps this is nowhere more evident that on Etsy.com, a U.S.-based website that describes itself as an "online crafts fair, " where you can buy and sell just about anything you can dream of that's handmade.

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She began working with beads and sewing as a child on the La Jolla Luiseno Reservation in California, and at 22, became the youngest artist to earn best in show at New Mexico's Santa Fe Market, the largest crafts fair in Indian Country.

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Major activities of the Expo will include exhibitions of masterpieces of traditional craftsmanship, live demonstrations of traditional craftsmanship, traditional crafts commodities fair, live experience in the making of traditional crafts, and exchanges and interactions between the audience and traditional craftsmen.

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Mr McCoubrey was presenting a stall at the Irish National Crafts and Design Fair in Dublin's RDS on Saturday.

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