The art of adding mother-of-pearl inlay to lacquerware has been practiced in Korea for more than a thousand years.

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Although you may know it simply as the shiny iridescent stuff on the inside of mollusk shells, mother-of-pearl (or nacre) is a remarkable material. It allows those shells, which otherwise consist ...

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