Sharon and Joel Edelson handed in a small mother-of -pearl knife, found among her late father-in-laws belongings.
Oyster shells abound with square holes punched out of the centres, gone to make mother-of-pearl buttons.
Mother-of-pearl is used as a pristine gloss on the instrument cluster, knobs, and clock.
Mother-of-pearl is actually stronger than high tech ceramics, which are used in biomedical implants.
Reality hit when they started looking for a fine cotton fabric and mother-of-pearl buttons.
Martin has also started a custom shop for the musician who wants, say, his own name inlaid in mother-of-pearl into the fingerboard.
For more colorful personalities, Omega also presented designs with dials in pale pink and blue mother-of-pearl, machine-engraved with the swirling supernova pattern.
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It was on these trips that she began her lifelong love affair with Islamic art and furniture in particular, pieces inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
And what seemed to please her more than anything was mother-of-pearl furniture.
Seashell leather upholstery, headrests embroidered with Rolls-Royce logos, and a mix of mother-of-pearl and wood trim make up the interior, according to Automobile Magazine.
Fingerboards have mother-of-pearl inlays of birds in flight or multicolored dragons.
Marie-Antoinette's love of interior decoration is conveyed through the exquisite furniture and porcelain with which she surrounded herself, such as her mother-of-pearl and gilded bronze writing desk.
Made from every manner of material--from ivory and brass to animal teeth and mother-of-pearl--tampers come in a wonderful variety of motifs, including a horse's hind leg, a bust of Oliver Cromwell, a milkmaid and, yes, a human finger.
Since that area provides 70% of Japan's mother-oysters, which are raised to accept the pearl seeds, the mystery disease rapidly spread to other pearl-cultivating sites.
Another treatment, Mother of Pearl, uses pulverized queen conch shells in an aloe and lemongrass-oil base to exfoliate the skin.
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