Batsheva Hay and Coyuchi turn reclaimed home textiles into quilted jackets

The most interesting thing about Coyuchi and Batsheva Hay’s quilted jacket is not that it is upcycled, but that it looks like something to treasure. Priced at $500, the one-style collaboration turned reclaimed quilts, shams and percale sheets into a jacket that feels closer to a design object than a dutiful sustainability statement, and every piece is unique in pattern and composition.

The jacket arrived on April 22 in honor of Earth Month, with Coyuchi making the case that circular design can move from the bedroom to the street without losing its charm. The shell is made from 100% upcycled organic cotton quilts and shams, while the lining uses 100% upcycled organic cotton percale sheets. Coyuchi said each jacket is handcrafted in New York City by Batsheva Hay, whose signature is a romantic, vintage-minded silhouette that has long leaned into repurposed textiles. Here, that sensibility shows up in the easy fit, the peter pan collar, front snap closures and side pockets, details that keep the jacket from tipping into craft fair cosplay.

The palette is tight and smart: Steel Blue/Pewter or Ginger. That restraint matters. With quilted outerwear, the risk is always looking too precious or too pastoral, but Hay knows how to let a strong textile do the work. Worn with straight-leg denim, a simple tee and loafers, the jacket reads as cool and intentionally offbeat. Thrown over a crisp shirt and black trousers, it becomes the kind of topper that makes an ordinary uniform feel studied. The trick is to keep everything else blunt and modern, so the patchwork and stitching can stay the statement.

Coyuchi is framing the project as its first designer collaboration made with renewed items, and the brand’s 2nd Home Renewed program has been around since 2017, when Coyuchi launched its take-back and renewal system to keep fabric out of landfills and back in homes. Customers who send back pre-loved items can get 15% off their next order, a small incentive that underscores the larger point: circularity works better when it is built into the clothes, not preached from the sidelines.

That is what makes this collaboration feel so sharp. Batsheva, which Hay started in 2016 after leaving her job as a lawyer, has always made clothes that treat history as a material, not a constraint. The opening of her first retail store at 166 Elizabeth Street in New York in spring 2024 only sharpened that identity. In this jacket, Coyuchi’s home textiles and Hay’s signature romance meet in a way that feels covetable, limited and just eccentric enough to be memorable.