Hi, I’m Kayla.

I’m a textile and fashion designer from Massachusetts. My work is often influenced by my family and my love for photography. During my undergraduate years at Parsons School of Design, I fell in love with hand-made textiles and craft, learning and working in knit, weaving, and jewelry. I enjoy creating multidisciplinary pieces, often combining film and digital images, painting/fine art, and traditional fiber arts.

Much of my recent work is inspired by archived family photos from the 1970s that highlight the prominence of plaid and graphic elements. Both plaid and the physical makeup of a woven fabric represent connections and transitions. My recent work highlights these semiotics at a deeper level, calling out my documented family relationships and questioning the transition of generations as these images are interpreted in more subtle and graphic ways. The work showcases “inlaying” the images through hand-woven plaids and other hand-woven renderings of the original photographs with careful consideration of locally sourced, and in some cases, recycled materials.

The work that is currently up for sale is all made by hand and with a lot of love!