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Jess Williams Textiles
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Jess Williams Textiles collections are reflective of an appreciation for the handmade, the quality materials of the past, and a celebration of the enthusiasm for goods to cherish for a lifetime.

Also, ✨ quotes from books I’m currently reading.
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‘She told me the world was made of stories. Nothing else, just stories. And stories about stories.’

-There There., Tommy Orange

Shop update now live 💖

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October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Finished the pictures, next up finding the time to update the shop. One day, one hour, one moment at a time. But with a deadline of tomorrow 😜

Pictured: a new favorite 💖

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October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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‘You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.’

-White Teeth, Zadie Smith.

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October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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‘Every moment happens twice, inside and outside. And they are two different histories.’

-White Teeth, Zadie Smith.

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October 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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‘She’d liked mommy..Mom was something else. Mom meant you are not yourself but a part of someone else. Belonging to someone else.’

-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars. Joyce Carol Oates

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October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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When I was a young boy, my aunt often told me a lie makes things worse. But she never explained that the truth can, too.’

-An Unthinkable Thing, Nicole Lundrigan

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October 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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‘They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future.’

-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates

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October 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Hi SF friends! Tomorrow myself and many other amazing makers will be at this market. Between this very special venue and all the talented, local artists you’ll meet, it’ll be a great time 💖

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October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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‘It is a mother’s perogative to touch a child.’

-Night. Sleep. Death. The stars., Joyce Carol Oates

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October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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‘The only dream worth having…To never forget your own insignificance…never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you’

-The God of Small Things, A. Roy

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September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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‘The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved…’

-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

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September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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‘Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world.’

-The God of Small Things, A. Roy

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September 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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‘It is after all so easy to shatter a story... To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it…is much the harder thing to do.’

-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

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September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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‘If you're happy in a dream, does that count?’

-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

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September 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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‘If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.’

-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See

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September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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‘No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice...The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.’

-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See

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September 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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‘Fall down eight times, stand up nine…We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren't brave. Now you need to be braver still.’

-The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See

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September 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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‘When you know someone so well, it’s as if they lose their names.’

-The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason

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September 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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‘Better to be a gentle soul than one consumed by anger, resentment and vengeance. Anyone can wage war, but maintaining peace is a difficult thing.’

-There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafa

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September 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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‘For the king knows that in order to dominate other cultures, you must capture not only their lands, crops and assets but also their collective imagination, their shared memories.’

-There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafa

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September 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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‘I think most people are the same. Until they’ve gone somewhere.’

-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver

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September 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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‘Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.’

-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver

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September 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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‘Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.’

-The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver

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September 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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‘Sometimes post-eating, usually after a large meal, his body makes sounds like a cooling car after a long drive. I can hear liquids shifting through small spaces.‘

-I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ian Reid

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September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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“…the thousand seasons—of frogsong, of thunderheads, of first thaws—that hid within the canonical Four.”

-North Woods, Daniel Mason

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August 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM