There are many benefits to using peel-and-stick products, even if you aren't a renter. For one, peel-and-stick products are ...

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 ...

There is a style of encaustic cement tile called Granito ... aggregates can be used such as chips of glass, metal, mother of pearl or abalone shells. Contemporary terrazzo designers are now ...

Ahead, interior designers share 10 trends that only recently seemed impossibly dated, and are now definitely cool again.

To protect itself, the oyster will coat the unwelcome visitor with layers of nacre (mother-of-pearl) until the gem is formed. Julius Caesar's desire to get his hands on our freshwater pearls is ...

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

As one of the highest clouds in our atmosphere, they form in very cold conditions and with their shimmering colours they are often referred to as "mother-of-pearl". One BBC Weather Watcher said ...

Avani+ Fares resort sits beside a healthy 220-metre house reef, a home for marine life and corals, giving the easiest access ...

Paul Hargrove will serve his fruits de mer in a room by the Rockwell Group with glints of mother-of-pearl, scallop tiles and seascapes on the walls. W Hotel, 201 Park Avenue South (17th Street).

By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl. The oyster ...

Cast from 18-karat gold, these striking earrings are set with fan-shaped mother of pearl and dotted with 0.07 carats of diamonds. The pearl inlays are designed to symbolise the curved marble ...

plus high-end finishes like mother-of-pearl window shutters, painted corbels, traditional ceramic tiles and stained-glass windows. Recent travelers described their time at this mosque as "amazing ...