Once considered dowdy and kitsch, some of the coolest designers are reimagining mother of pearl decor, giving it a whole new ...

They are tinted with colors when the setting Sun scatters light. That color has led to them being nicknamed "mother-of-pearl" clouds. While Mars' atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, few of its ...

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 ...

In Egypt, decorative mother-of-pearl was used at least as far back as 4200 B.C., but the use of pearls themselves seems to have been later, perhaps related to the Persian conquest in the fifth ...

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 ...

To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk starts to coat the debris with nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same material that lines the inner layer of its shell. It continues doing this ...

Jaeger-LeCoultre precisely tracks the moon phases in various models including those from the Rendez-Vous line dedicated to ...