A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

Its best freshwater pearls fueled a ready market overseas ... membrane (the lip of mantle tissue) with a nucleus of shell or metal into an oyster's body or mantle causes the tissue to form ...

To enhance the freshwater pearls created in the Wabash River, they were shipped to Japan. “If you look at the side of a fresh mussel shell, it is real bright mother of pearl coloration.

Before the development of plastic, buttons were made from mussel shells. Freshwater pearls are still cultured by inserting small pieces of native mussel shell into oysters. Mussels are fascinating ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

The largest Scottish freshwater pearl found in living memory has been ... like a grain of sand, gets inside the shell. To protect itself, the oyster will coat the unwelcome visitor with layers ...

From the large piles of discarded shells dating back 5000 years ... In fact, Julius Caesar's desire to get his hands on our freshwater pearls is thought to have been his motivation behind invading ...

Oysters and clams are two very popular edible mollusks or bivalves. Although they have many similarities between them, there ...

Narendra Kumar Girwa transformed his life from a struggling bookseller to a successful pearl farmer, earning Rs 10–16 lakhs ...

What is it? Well, many of the manicures feature this ethereal, pearly, opalescent finish, a bit like the mother-of-pearl-insides of a mollusc shell. So there, I’m calling it: shell nails are ...

Radiating from a big red dot, a series of concentric circles fanned above me. A bicycle wheel? A spider’s web? The eye of a ...