Veteran Terry Grasse of Lisbon Falls cuts an edge of a military uniform pocket while creating his art. The art of the veterans gathered in Deer Isle will hang on the walls of a Haystack center building Friday night through Sunday.

Grasse, a Vietnam War veteran, works on creating art from pieces of a military uniform Thursday. “This is a way to share and a way to let go of a few things,” Grasse said.

Grasse made this pattern by putting metal between two sheets of paper made with cut-up military uniforms and dampening the paper so the metal would rust. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

Aaron Hughes of California, a veteran who served in Iraq with the Illinois Army National Guard, pulls pulp from a tub at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Hughes was making silk screen prints on the paper. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

A silk screen print made by Hughes. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

Debe Loughlin of Waldoboro works on an art piece made from paper from her Coast Guard uniform. Loughlin served in the Coast Guard from 1973-1979 and worked in Vietnam near the end of the war there. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

Maurice Decaul of New York, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2003, cuts up military uniforms. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

Greg Woods of Orland, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, burns holes in paper for a piece of art. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer