Shell-shaped decorative objects were very popular during the 19th century. There were trinket boxes covered in tiny shells, counter bells made with several mother-of-pearl shells put together into ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

These are roughly spherical, ovoid or egg-shaped ... of mother-of-pearl. The nacre is made of chemicals secreted by the same kind of cells responsible for making the mollusc’s shell.

Many molluscs present an iridescent nacre layer on the internal surface of their shells, which lends them ... mussels, nacras, pearl oysters), which grow just like terraces of tablets.

All the buttons on our shirts are made from finest quality Australian deep shell mother of pearl, not the flimsy shard-like splinters used by so many other Shirtmakers,' they write on their site.

An curved arrow pointing right. Jukkit Suksawat a Thai artist who has been creating traditional mother-of-pearl inlay for the past 30 years. He is determined to keep this 14th-century tradition ...