About

Tessa Layzelle is a designer/maker based in York, UK. She makes quilts that sit in the crossover between artwork and homeware.

Tessa regularly works to commission for interior designers and individuals, creating wall art, quilts for the home and heirloom textiles for children. Her distinctive designs are sought after by those who value living with the generous magic of the handmade.

“I compose and design each quilt with the thought it will be seen as a whole if hung on the wall, but also strewn on a bed with the reverse conversing with the front. I consider how it will feel to be wrapped right up in it, binding brushing lips. How will it feel in 10 years? 50?

I continue to make quilts because of the freedom of this artform. Practical paintings have the flexible ability to disappear in the home and quietly reappear with a fold, a wrap, a shuffle, or by hanging them LARGE AND LOUD ON THE WALL!

Living with handmade is resistance and rebellion and for everyone.”

Tessa was lead tutor for a Saturday Club in 2024-25, a weekly free art club for 13-16 year olds, she designed the curriculum around sustainable design and making. She is part of Makers Made, a collective and directory of independent UK homeware makers. Her work is available in small collections in her shop and select stockists and has appeared in multiple interiors publications see Press.

Clients / collaborators include: Liberty, Selfridges, Barbican, Christopher Farr Cloth, Fine Cell Work, Anna Jones, Buchanan Studio, Studio Peake, Beata Heuman, Kit Kemp, Noz Nozawa, Frank de Biasi, Ace Hotel, Martin Brudnizki, House of Grey, Guesthouse Hotels, Glebe House, Orla Read, Stay Crafted, The Modern House, Estelle Manor, Isabella Carlucci, Golden Design Interiors, Phoebe Hollond, Felt collections.