In Brazil, traditional kitchen towels are bleached white to be hand-painted or embroidered and often finished with crochet trim. Panos de Prato is stained with beet juice as a signifier of Santos's memories of women's manual labor through generations. Bleach was then applied to remove the evidence of some of the work allowing for intentional patterns to emerge. Additionally, the artist hand-stitched beet-dyed threads creating marks referring to the passage of time. Domestic work is never done.