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Decorations sea shell crafts:

Man has been using shells to decorate his dwellings and public meeting places since before the dawn of history. (Note: Take a look around your own house - bet you find a shell or two somewhere!)

• Sea shell crafts a distinctive form of decoration. Many of the art forms of today started in the early eighteenth century. The chief credit for making shell work so popular and fashionable a pastime goes to England and specifically to Mrs. Delany and the Duchess of Portland (1714-1785). Untold millions of sea shell crafts are displayed in homes and are cherished as curios and in treasured private collections worldwide.

• Ancient Greeks collected sea shell crafts to decorate their gardens and fishponds. At the height of the Rococo era, real shells for decoration became vogue. Shells were especially used to make, little houses and grottos in the gardens and parks of great chateaux and houses in France and England.

• Many Coats of Arms (symbols of a socially prominent family) bear sea shell crafts images.