We are designing gorgeous necklaces, pendants, earrings, and bracelets with these incredibly beautiful and unique shells turned into lapidary.
The Oyster Turquoise is made with a real shell from the spiny oyster, which is combined with turquoise to create beautiful unique patterns. Turquoise will always be a classic addition to jewelry. But there is something in the fiery reds, oranges, and sometimes purples of spiny oyster that complements the turquoise and adds the oomph.
Spiny Oyster shells are unique, beautiful, and also difficult to harvest... The shells of the Spiny Oyster are rare finds and are especially treasured by Native American Indian artists for their beautiful red, pink, brown, yellow, orange, purple, and white colors. The shell is grated down during the jewelry-making process but the stripes remain. These are individual to each oyster. Orange, red, and purple all over! The color is dependent on the region in which the oyster is from. Different minerals in different regions cause a change of color as the oyster forms. It is an oyster rainbow! The Atlantic thorny oyster is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and mostly in the Gulf of Mexico where it is found at depths between 9 and 45 meters.
