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fruitcake's from a century ago, but y'know. Probably still good

oh and some decorations too, definitely safe around the kids

⋆｡˚☆˖ Cinnamoroll Mobile Stickers [3-Pack] (ft. Cinnamoroll, Milk) ˖☆˚｡⋆

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beautiful, beautiful pearls. made from calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite and calcite in crystal form) they are made by shelled mollusks as a response to irritants within the body.

Any shelled mollusk is capable of creating them, it's not just clams! Like take this beautiful melo melo pearl, made by the Indian Volute or Bailer Shell snail. They are extremely rare and expensive, selling for $20,000 for just one.

If you wanna see the biggest pearl ever found, look no further than this 61 lb. monstrosity valued at 100 million dollars!

Remember how I mentioned that pearls are formed to cover and soothe foreign irritants in the shell? Well that normally comes from regular old sand, but it can also be other things, like uhh... live fish mayhaps?

it's even intentionally cultivated sometimes, as with these buddha-shaped pearls made by placing tiny metal figurine against a pearl oyster's soft tissues

While mostly used for jewelry, pearl powder is also found in some skincare products, as well as being a traditional Chinese medicine ingredient, used to treat convulsions and skin diseases. I don't really know how effective the first medicinal claim is, but from what I hear, the antioxidant properties work great!

lastly of course, there's honorary mention of Dragon Pearls, which contrary to popular myth are not technically real pearls, but bezoars typically formed from the bones and gastroliths in a dragon's stomach. Believed to have lucky properties, their over-collection has threatened native dragon populations to the point that sales of them are now banned in most countries. We here at Uncraft hold a firm belief in that rule too, so don't go asking for any of those!

Sorry about the long wait for updates friends! Merv's been on a multi-month trade trip, gathering up a bunch of fascinating new materials for the store! Our leporine friend should be coming back soon though, and while he does let's look at a new notable examples of fabric craftsmanship!

ah the humble horn. made of keratin (or bone in the case of antlers), horns are typically found on ungulate creatures such as cows, sheep, antelope, deer and unicorn. they can have quite impressive shapes sometimes, such as in the curling spirals of markhor goats or the temperature-regulating satellite dishes of watusi cattle

in cows and deer, the loss of horn isn't typically too much of an issue, being naturally shed by the latter every year and in the former capable of trimming as one would a fingernail. We don't typically use them much nowadays outside of hobbyist artworks, but at one point in history they were vital

Did you know that before baking soda became popular, bakers used a material called hartshorn, which was made by the drying and distillation of red deer antlers?

there's also the famous viking drinking horns, and the traditional Jewish shofar, still used in ceremonies to this day

before we had widespread usage of plastic and glass, hollow cow's horns would be cut into sections, unrolled and polished to a level of transparency/translucency that made them useful as window panes or for children's hornbooks used to teach reading

And of course, I couldn't make a list of horns without mentioning those of the unicorn and dragon, used for ages in all manner of magic and medicine

⋆｡˚☆˖ Bad Badtz-Maru Mobile Stickers [3-Pack] (ft. Bad Badtz-Maru, Hana-Maru) ˖☆˚｡⋆

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