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The Seven Rites of the Lakota
Handmade paper with buffalo hair and sage. “The book is an English-only summary of several lectures presented in Lakota and English at Wake Forest University.”
Okra Queen
“It is a generally unpleasant creature. "There's nothing elegant about it," says papermaker, marbler, and letterpress printer Susanne Martin, "but it makes great paper." Okra has become her fiber of choice, the one she has worked with the most as a hand papermaker.
Greensboro Daily Photo
“Today we feature handmade art paper by Susanne Baker. Susanne learned this ancient marbleizing technique, known as Ebru, thirty years ago at the University of Alabama. She has been perfecting her papermaking throughout the years. Susanne sells the paper and journals, notecards, and other items with the paper at the Yanceyville Farmers Curb Market. She sells every weekend and on special events, like the holiday market this past Sunday”
Crafted by Hand: Five people who are passionate about their work
“Dried flowers, feathers — even embroidery thread — can be incorporated into paper making. When Baker made a companion volume for Fred Chappell for his publication, “Familiars: Poems,” she used actual hair from the Chappells’ cats (the book is about cats). Each page is infused with their cat hair”
Greensboro Farmers Market
“Fibernacci Press is the only letterpress in the triad that makes a book from beginning to end: the paper, the printing, and the binding. The work that Susanne does is primarily limited editions where she makes the paper, prints the text with handset type on her Number 1 Vandercook Proof Press. She makes handmade paper out of plant matter that farmers would ordinarliy compost or till into the ground. She also bind the books in a style fitting to the content.”