Artist Amy Ray's elaborate needlework garments don't sit in her shop for long — her wearable, upcycled art pieces are quickly finding their audience.
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Sara Anne Donelly is a Down East contributing editor.
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More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.
Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.
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His shady characters have attracted celebrity clients and 750,000 social-media fans.
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