Doesn’t it look like a fun handmade beaded bracelet to wear? The mother of pearl bar is creamy white with lighter variations of white running through them. We designed the handmade bracelet with lots of Swarovski crystal pearls and even added Mother of Pearl stars – just for fun.
Girlie Girls can pair this wonderful handmade beaded bracelet with your favorite white shirt and jeans or formal attire. Either way, you’ll be looking your best wearing custom handcrafted jewelry from Girlie Girls Jewelry Studio; your source for exceptional designs in handmade beaded bracelets.
Mother-of-pearl is defined as the hard, smooth, pearly, iridescent nacreous layers that make up the inner surface of a pearl-producing mollusk's shell. The funny thing is, no one seems to mind that it isn't really a pearl's mother at all. In fact, it should probably be called house-of-pearl. The pearl's mother is the living mussel, for it is the living organism that lays down the aragonite and calcite that forms both the nacre of the pearl and mother-of-pearl – who knew?
Mother of Pearl is sometimes called Nacre, is not actually a crystal, but is obtained from the internal lining of either
the pearl oyster shell or the abalone shell. It brings with it the gentle healing powers of the seas. Mother of Pearl is both relaxing
and soothing to the emotions. It is considered both a stress relieving stone and a very protective stone.
Throughout history, certain cultures have placed little or no value on pearls and have focused instead on luminescent mother-of-pearl
from mollusk shells. Before the 19th century, Japanese shell divers who found pearls apparently did not bother to keep them. Polynesian
children are said at one time to have used pearls as marbles. These and other peoples harvested pearl oysters for their shells, using
the mother-of-pearl for decoration. Abalone was also popular with many groups, including those in the Americas: people ate the flesh
of the mollusks and used pieces of colorful abalone shell as inlay on carved objects made of wood, ivory and bone.
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