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 ...

such as creating small cubes of abalone shell to hang from earrings and pendants, slicing pearls to reveal their inner striations and sculpting mother-of-pearl to resemble an emerald-cut gem.

abalone and capiz shell details, or mother-of-pearl caviar servers... Basically, imagine the Little Mermaid was a cool-girl living in New York City. The iridescence of these items almost makes ...