Using the offcuts of fabric donated by the concentration of clothing factories in the neighborhood, the Retalhos Cariocas girls produce a range of sandals, bags and accessories with a uniquely Rio spirit of tropical color and joie de vivre.

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In a specially built workshop, protein solutions are exposed to every conceivable range of conditions varying in such things as the acidity, salt concentration and temperature of the solution to persuade them to crystallise.

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