Mother-of-pearl buttons were once a staple of high-end tailored shirts, jackets and coats. But for such a ubiquitous fashion item, their origins are now rarely seen - and are becoming more unusual as ...
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The stunning old-school material to keep your eyes peeled for at the thrift store
Some materials fall out of fashion but remain elegant and timeless in their own way. This oceanic one has been in use for ...
The earth contains a plethora of strong materials, and most of these are yet to be discovered by humans. Mother of pearl, which is also known as nacre, is a material of astonishing strength with ...
Scientists have studied nacre's growing mechanism of gastropods, a step for the artificial reproduction of this material in laboratories which could make possible its use in biomedicine. Although ...
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 alive ...
A group of researchers think they’ve found a simpler, more accurate way to track historical ocean temperatures: studying nacre, or mother-of-pearl, under a microscope. Mother-of-pearl is an iridescent ...
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