50 Palo-santo SPECIAL OFFER (5 bags with 6 cones  &  45 bags with 25grs sticks)

50 Palo-santo SPECIAL OFFER (5 bags with 6 cones & 45 bags with 25grs sticks)

 Feathers rings XXL from Papua New Guinea.

Feathers rings XXL from Papua New Guinea.

Shells - mobile "Ibiza-style 2018"

Beautiful mobile made of various Capiz shells, pictured is a white, but are delivered in assorted colors.
SKU
8108

Capiz is a flat, oyster-like shell, which in large quantities in the waters around the Philippine islands. The shell is fairly round and flat. During the Spanish colonial period were the shells used by their translucent character for windows in houses. It is precisely this characteristic makes capiz an ideal base material.

The shell (or in the slag also known as the "volute") is one of limestone (calcite and / or aragonite) and other minerals existent (in most cases) external skeleton, which is produced by a mollusk (strain der Mollusca). The shell gives the animal strength and protects the animal against external influences such as predation, injury, dehydration, etc. The shell grows during the life of the mollusk. The science that studies all aspects of molluscs called malacology. A branch of the malacology which concerns itself only with the shell, called conchology. Previously, it was believed, wrongly, that malacology was not involved and the distinction between malacology and conchology was laid by some very sharp with the shell. In current practice, the terms are often interchangeably, and they are more or less considered as synonyms. Shells can be used for paving a walkway, which sometimes is called a shell path. Also shells are fired to shell limestone, which was often used as a building material in the past instead of cement.

 

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