Kouchini (Textiles) - Manufacture of household textiles including linens, table linen, kitchenware, bathroom accessories, aprons, oven gloves, duvet covers, cushions and seat pads.
Bentley & Spens - English hand printed fabrics. Combining traditional fabric painting and printing techniques, with a strong, contemporary feel.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Textiles "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Textiles
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Textiles The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Textiles
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Textiles "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Textiles I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Textiles
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Textiles I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Textiles
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Textiles Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Textiles
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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computer that th Textiles The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Textiles
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Textiles "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Textiles
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Textiles The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Textiles
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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-- Will Rogers If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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-- Aaron Levenstein Textiles
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Textiles The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- M. C. Reed Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Textiles
