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    Welcome

    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.


    An Update About Some Changes

    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

    About Us and Natural Dye

    Who?

    What?

    What?

    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.

    What?

    What?

    What?

    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.

    Why?

    What?

    Why?

    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.

    The Blog

    Just For Fun - dyed fabric Foods

    Linguini with Meatballs

    Linguini with Meatballs

    Linguini with Meatballs

    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.

    Lunch is Served

    Linguini with Meatballs

    Linguini with Meatballs

    Grilled cheese sandwich with a couple pickle slices, salty chips and a cupcake with sprinkles for dessert.

    Fluffy Frosting

    Linguini with Meatballs

    Hot Off the Griddle

    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.

    Hot Off the Griddle

    Hot Off the Griddle

    Hot Off the Griddle

    Just like its high-calorie counterpart, this cheese sandwich was browned on a griddle before served.

    Taco Time!

    Hot Off the Griddle

    Guac and Beans

    A nice crispy taco shell filled with shredded beef, cheese and lettuce. All item use fabrics dyed as part of The Yellow Project.

    Guac and Beans

    Hot Off the Griddle

    Guac and Beans

    Side dishes of black beans with a sprinkling of queso and a chunky guacamole with chopped onions and tomato.

    Order Up!

    Toast with Butter

    Toast with Butter

    .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

    Toast with Butter

    Toast with Butter

    Toast with Butter

    Someone took a bite out of the toast. Colors come from marigold with a thrifted commercial ribbon 'crust.'

    For the Big Eater

    Toast with Butter

    For the Big Eater

    Fluffy cheese omelette made of silk with sausage links, half a grapefruit, latte and a stack of pancakes with butter melting on top.

    For Cereal Lovers

    High Fiber Breakfast for Two

    For the Big Eater

    A bowl of cornflakes that won't get soggy in the 'milk.' Cereal made with marigoid-dyed fabric and pinking shears.

    High Fiber Breakfast for Two

    High Fiber Breakfast for Two

    High Fiber Breakfast for Two

    All breakfast foods are made with fabrics dyed or printed in the Yellow Project. Sources include coreopsis, marigold, rabbitbrush, pomegranate rinds and fustic.

    EVENTS, EXHIBITS, SHOWS

    current and upcoming

    August 11-17 Artist in Residence at Wildacres Retreat in Little Switzerland, North Carolina, to study the effects of a wet environment and humid forest climate on dye intensity and color from yellow-producing flowers.


    November 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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    SOURCES, PARTNERSHIPS, SUPPORT

    Color Sources

    Fabric, Fiber Sources

    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.

    Fabric, Fiber Sources

    Fabric, Fiber Sources

    Thrifted and up-cycled fabrics, fibers and linens from Who Gives a Scrap, Arcturus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 

    Graphics and Design

    Graphics and Design

    Logo, graphics and design by James Rosanio, Blue Claw Graphics & Design, Medford, New Jersey.

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    Janet Day - Owner/Artist

    Around the World in 80 Dyes

    Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

    Email: JDay@80Dyes.com



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