"I was so excited when Ayla asked me to collaborate! My love for salmon and salmonberries is huge, and I’m so ecstatic with how these sweaters turned out."

Blake is a Haíɫzaqv artist who just finished her first year of the First Nations Fine Arts Diploma program at Coast Mountain College. Blake created the beautiful formline salmon. The final design honours both salmon and salmonberries, as cultural keystone species, and as our relations.

"Coming from potlatch culture it's always my inclination to share what I have."

Haíɫzaqv and Nuu-chah-nulth owner and operator Ayla started creating designs that she wanted to wear. Designs that honour her Indigenous roots, and speak to Indigenous Peoples living up and down the coast. Each design is a celebration of resistance, resilience, and love; for the People, the ancestors, the homelands, waters, and future generations.