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Mother-of-pearl

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Shell carved into icons, rosaries and crucifixes, and inlaid in olive wood: a craft Franciscan monks brought from Italy in the sixteenth century, worked by the Christians of the Bethlehem area. Bethlehem remains its centre.

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  1. Mother-of-Pearl ↗

    Travel Palestine, the tourism portal of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · section: The article

    Evidence version: travel-palestine-mother-of-pearl:v1

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HeritageMother-of-pearl is practised in PlaceBethlehem

Role: Still the centre of the craft

Attributed to Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine (Travel Palestine).

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  1. Mother-of-Pearl ↗

    Travel Palestine, the tourism portal of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: Today Bethlehem is still the center for the manufacture of mother- of-pearl objects

    Evidence version: travel-palestine-mother-of-pearl:v1

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