| A1 Jewelry Making Supplies for All of Your Jewelry Supplies Abalone and Mop BeadsThe shells that are perhaps most familiar and most commonly encountered, both in the wild and for sale as decorative objects, are seashells, more precisely, the external shells of marine mollusks. These are usually primarily composed of calcium carbonate, in the form of calcite or aragonite crystallised out in an organic matrix. This can take different forms, one being nacre or mother of pearl. Other kinds of animal shells are made from chitin, bone and cartilage, or silica.
Shells of many types were, throughout prehistory, history, and are still to the present day, popular as human adornments, either used whole or cut into pieces. The uses have including all kinds of pendants, beads, buttons, brooches, rings, and hair combs.
The Images below are samples of some great Abalone and Mop Beads. Check out the full line at Abalone and Mop Beads
 ABOV10 Abalone oval 8x10mm(strand)
|  ABRE14 Abalone rectangular 4x14mm(strand)
|  ABSQ12 Abalone square 12mm(strand)
|  MPNUBE12 colored Mop beige nuget 12mm(10 strands)
|  MPNUPU12 colored Mop purple nuget 12mm (10 strands)
|  MPREFU14 colored MOP fusia 10x14mm(strand)
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