Kantha is a similar technique, but using a running stitch and larger scraps of material. Chindi is the leftover of the leftover. By making cloth in this way, the resources used to grow cotton, spin yarn, and weave fabric are not wasted. Left is kantha; right is chindi.

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*knickt ein Eselsohr in ausgewählte Folgende*

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Btw, I love being asked questions about string theory. It forces me to think about it. This is not something I've done a lot since I bowed out of the "string-loop wars" and focused on n-category theory. Here was my parting shot: www.edge.org/response-det...

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A new Editorial up at Research Notes from @publishing.aas.org. 🔭 Following a recent flood of AI-generated papers, we are changing our submission rules. I'm sure this will be the first of several as we try to keep RNAAS open and free, without being swamped. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Yes, nobody has a fucking clue why particles have the masses they do. In the Standard Model we blame it on how particles couple to the Higgs. 22 of the 25 undetermined constants in the Standard Model are couplings of various particles to the Higgs. It works great! But it's a mystery.

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