Mother of Pearl Silver Jewelry History

  We all know that beautifying oneself and the use of jewelry has been around since the prehistoric times. Bead making and bead necklaces called heishe, which have been derived from the Santo Domingo word for shell, have been used for ages. Shells like the spiny oyster shell, mother of pearl, abalone, conch and clam have been used in bead making and have been considered important trade items of the southwest for more than thousand years .   The use of silver in Native American jewelry is not an old concept. It has been used since the early 1850s, when the Mexican silversmiths had to trade their silver trinkets for the cattle from the Navajo. The Navajo blacksmiths then in turn exchanged their skill of silver making with the Zuni Indians for livestock. The Hopi tribe then picked up the art of silver making from the Zuni in the 1890s. It is important to note that the Native Americans in no way were linked with mining of the silver.   The styles of jewe...

  Introduction   Reflecting the rainbows of the sea beds , iridescent Mother of Pearl is the Opal of the ocean . Like Ambe r, Mother of Pearl is natural, but in contrast to some other gemstone it paperwork locked away within its creator: the mollusk .   15th Century Europeans, in the course of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, gave Mother of Pearl its name. However the beauty of Mother of Pearl, birthstone of June, has been used in the ornament of precious jewels and embellishes as far again as 3000 years before the start of Christ.   Definition   Mother of Pearl: Crystals of calcium carbonate and conchiolin , secreted through the residing organism inside a mollusk , which increase and solidify coating the internal surface of the shell. Also referred to as Nacre (na.Ker): from the Arabic phrase 'Naqqarah ' which means shell.   Mother Of Pearl In Mesopotamia   In the Twenties, a sequence of tombs have been excavated to the east...