Rosarres, composed of mother of pearl beads strung on silver wires, are the most important product of this industry. Mother of pearl work is almost entirely a home industry? In addition to the ...

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 ...

Mother-of-pearl, the iridescent coating inside oyster ... Whereas Nishikawa nucleated with silver and gold beads, Mikimoto experimented with everything from glass to lead to clay to wood.