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Velma Bolyard is a mother, artist and teacher. Living north of the Adirondacks, she forages for and cultivates fibers, dye and papermaking plants. She makes paper, threads, spins kami-ito, weaves shifu, and fish skin parchment, and she spins and cultivates wild silks for her artists’ books. A papermaker since 1977, her specialty is local plant papers and flax, which she colors with plants and earth pigments. She delightsin edges, selvedges, deckles, and ecotones where the woods meet open land; that is also where she finds the material and stories for her work. Small adventures and stories show up as poems in her books from time to time.
