About the artist

Hayley Helmreich is a fibre and tapestry artist who lives in Los Angeles. She is originally from NYC, moving to LA by way of Seattle in the 1990’s. She spent 20+ years working in the TV and Film industry, when in 2016 she took a weaving workshop on a whim...

Hayley took to weaving like a fish to water...and within six months of learning tapestry weaving she converted a bedroom in her home to a studio, had six looms (she now has over close to twenty including a Saori loom...) and was on making things on a daily basis. Working with fibre became a new way of processing life and the world and Hayley never looked back at producing. She had become fibre obsessed.

Within a year, Hayley was selling her tapestries online and at a shop in Pasadena. In 2019, she added the Wanderlust Pillow (in two sizes: Dreamtime and Naptime) to her collection and in an instant they started flying out of the studio! Functional Design has become Hayley's favorite way to share her tapestries.

Hayley is inspired by feminist fibre artists such as  Sheila Hicks, Meghan Shimek, Erin M. Riley, Maryanne Moodie and Faith Ringgold.