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 ...

She crushed one large pearl of a pair of earrings ... gained the appellation "Land of Pearls." Mother-of-pearl, the iridescent coating inside oyster shells, once formed the foundation of a ...

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 ...

Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one specimen stands out: a large oyster shell ... in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...