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Welcome to Around the World in 80 Dyes, an exploration of natural dyes for fabric and fiber, with a current focus on creating and manipulating yellows produced by native flowers, nuts, barks, minerals and waste products.
The Yellow Project has moved to its own website: https://yellowfibers.com. That's where you'll find updates and details about my efforts to push the world of yellow natural dyes as far as a I can. Please check it out from time to time.
This site will continue to focus on the rest of my dye world -- experiments, travels, successes, failures, sales, giveaways, events and more. The blog for 80dyes will continue here and I will still be on Instagram as @80dyes.
Thank you for supporting both efforts.
Janet
Janet Day, the owner and artist behind Around the World in 80 Dyes. A life-long quilter and textile artist, daughter of painters, curious kid from the hippie era with a fascination for color and its creation.
An adventure through creating color from natural dye sources, including using kitchen waste, yard waste, weeds, flowers, barks and dirts to sustainably create dyes. Through experimentation and travel, I'll record it all on the blog and through new projects.
After years of smashing flowers into textiles and staining my fingernails in pots of dye, it's time to share my discoveries and disasters more widely so others can join the adventure in natural dyes around the world.
Pass the grated parmesan! The red sauce was created from pomegranate tannin and madder root. Linguni: A thin pom rind exhaust bath. Meatballs: Pom tannin with iron.
Grilled cheese sandwich with a couple pickle slices, salty chips and a cupcake with sprinkles for dessert.
All food was created using fabrics dyed as part of The Yellow Project, except the fluffy frosting, which is shredded undyed quilt batting. The sprinkles are the real thing.
Just like its high-calorie counterpart, this cheese sandwich was browned on a griddle before served.
A nice crispy taco shell filled with shredded beef, cheese and lettuce. All item use fabrics dyed as part of The Yellow Project.
Side dishes of black beans with a sprinkling of queso and a chunky guacamole with chopped onions and tomato.
.Bacon, sunny side up egg and a pile of hash browns. Even the dark browns and pink come from yellow-producing dye sources after manipulating pH and additives to shift the colors
Someone took a bite out of the toast. Colors come from marigold with a thrifted commercial ribbon 'crust.'
Fluffy cheese omelette made of silk with sausage links, half a grapefruit, latte and a stack of pancakes with butter melting on top.
A bowl of cornflakes that won't get soggy in the 'milk.' Cereal made with marigoid-dyed fabric and pinking shears.
All breakfast foods are made with fabrics dyed or printed in the Yellow Project. Sources include coreopsis, marigold, rabbitbrush, pomegranate rinds and fustic.
POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER! Feb. 14-28 Proyecto 'Ace artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to continue The Yellow Project work using native yellow-producing dyes of Argentina, including Fustic and Quebracho.
Check back for more information and details about arts fairs, fiber festivals, gallery shows and other events for 2025.
PAST EXHIBITS
Around the World in 80 Dyes naturally dyed textile art has been exhibited at the following galleries:
Old Walls Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Lab on Santa Fe experimental art gallery in Denver, Colorado
Liminal Space Gallery in Pueblo, Colorado
Paquette Gallery, Steam Plant Event Center in Salida, Colorado
PACE arts center in Parker, Colorado
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Avocado pits provided by Stir Coffee & Cocktails, North Wahsatch Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO
Flowers provided by garden centers in Colorado Springs, CO, friends and neighbors.
Thrifted and up-cycled fabrics, fibers and linens from Who Gives a Scrap, Arcturus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO
Logo, graphics and design by James Rosanio, Blue Claw Graphics & Design, Medford, New Jersey.
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