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 ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard ... which shells are known in commerce as flat-shells, green snail-shells, buffalo-shells, Bombay shells. Messrs. Faunt-leroy and Mr. Banks had also some fine collections.

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...