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Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has worked with people from one of Mumbai’s poorest areas to transform traditional water carriers into leathery vases. Based on techniques used in Heykoop’s earlier Skin Collection, the project recycles Indian stainless steel water carriers called ‘matkas’ by covering them with high quality scrap leather. The patchwork of leather forms random patterns which are different on every piece.To produce them, Heykoop teamed up with Tiny Miracles Foundation, a charity that aims to raise one poor community living in Mumbai’s red-light district to middle-class status within 10 years.Locals are now employed by Heykoop to make the vases in a workshop in the neighbourhood.