Sitting in front of a cutting wheel in his studio full of seashells, artisan Jin A'shan takes a few pieces, fashions them into different shapes and quickly polishes them. Within minutes, ordinary ...

Chris Thompson is preserving his Muscogee heritage through the art of shell carving. Chris Thompson is a Muscogee shell carver. Using various marine snail and clam shells, he's preserving the heritage ...

Xiantao shell carvings are made of shells from Shahu Lake. The carvings are created with careful design, carving, grinding, assembling, inlaying and decorating with artistic influences from Chinese ...

China has a new art trend involving eggs but it has nothing to do with tempera. Intricate portraits carved on egg shells have captured the imagination of the public at this year's Cultural Exhibition ...

The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds. Researchers in Java, Indonesia, ...

HAIKOU, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Wearing masks and overalls, two villagers skillfully drilled holes into coconut shells and used machines to cut them into circular and square pieces. They are residents of ...