For much of its history, the people of Dartmoor have depended on indigenous materials - such as granite and tin - for their livelihoods and sustenance, as well as livestock such as sheep.

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Betina has found a way to modernize hand-embroidery techniques and indigenous materials like shell and pineapple weave fabric by playing on the strengths of her youth and her personal style urban with traces of influence from designers like Nicolas Ghesquiere, the team at Kenzo, Proenza Schouler, Givenchy and Alexander Wang.

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Development was spurred when, in the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa took on a pariah status that apartheid added to its geographical isolation: It was to manufacture fuels and chemicals from "indigenous raw materials, " i.e.

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