Argentina [Yellow]
Janet Day

Janet Day is a lifelong textile artist and weaver, raised by painters and shaped by a childhood spent exploring the colors hidden in plants, soil, and everyday messes.

What began as stained clothes and curious experiments became a dedicated artistic practice based on natural dyes and sustainable color creation. Her recent research focuses on natural dyes that produce yellow, a seemingly simple but infinitely variable color. Flowers, barks, and roots produce yellows ranging from the brightest to the most earthy, from warm orange tones to mustard or deep browns, each of which can be transformed through pH, heat, soaking methods, mordants, and additives.

MANTLE (Quilt)
Technique: Squares assembled with a sewing machine and hand stitching.
Materials: Cotton fabrics dyed with yellow color sources found in Argentina: fustete and quebracho bark, onion and pomegranate peels.
Bits of Mordants in the dyes to create other colors, including washing soda or chalk to make the colors deeper and more intense; vinegar or lemon juice to lighten them; and iron to bring the colors toward brown.