Traditional Hawaiian Quilt
Design Ornaments
Made from Opihi Shell Pearl
These ornaments are hand made
in Hawaii. All are a little different due to the shell difference and handmade
procedures.
These Quilt ornaments like
the Hawaiian Style ornaments on the previous page are also made with
the Opihi Shell. The opihi shell is a limpet and found only in Hawaii and
nowhere else in the world. Some of its uses during ancient times was a
scrapping tool, fish hooks, fishing lures, cooking utensil and was
a treasured personal necklace jewelry worn by the "Alii" or
ruling class of Hawaii.
Encrusted with barnacles
and seaweed vegetation growing on its shell, they and its hardened ridges
are all sanded away to reveal a layer of shell that is of pearl like quality.
This area then grounded up into a fine powder and combined with polymer
binders and other ingredients to create these quilt ornaments and
other products.
The quilt patterns
were the first designs introduced to the Hawaiian people to teach them
how to sew.
order by lettered-number
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