Mother-of-pearl can be traced back to the Mesopotamians ... which aims to celebrate the imperfections in the natural world. Not all pearls have to be prim and proper, a point proven by Missoma ...

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 ...

Born in 1949 in Hwanghaedo, North Korea, Sohn’s father had already died when he was born. He eventually fled to the South with his mother in 1950 when the Korean War (1950-53) broke out. He didn’t ...

“The natural ones were overfarmed ... extracting from the earth or pumping in chemicals.” The by-product mother-of-pearl, which is increasingly being explored by Bibi van der Velden and ...