Photo from the night Mamdani launched his campaign. He appears to be wearing a jacket made from chindi, which is an Indian fabric made by upcycling leftover materials. Here, small scraps of material from previous projects are backed by cotton muslin and sewn together using an embroidery stitch.

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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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“It’s been about an hour - everything's going well so far” 😂

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my goal as a menswear writer isn't to help you look cool or impress people, but to help you cultivate a kind of curiosity, knowledge, and appreciation that will allow you to get this excited about a pair of blue jeans. IG lib_claire

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Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero “Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list "the man who arrived just before you".”

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