Yesterday's post moved from a summer mood, so let's continue the thread today by looking at inspiring sea shell colours. As you may know, while the colour of the actual shell depends from specific genes, it can also be influenced by a mollusk's diet or by the temperature of the sea. In some very sad cases colours are altered by pollution.
The colours of these sea shells - beautiful examples of Chlamys (Mimachlamys) senatoria senatoria from Okinawa, Japan, and from Cebu, in the Philippines (picture 1 and 2 in this post) and of Flexopecten glaber glaber from Chioggia, Italy (picture 3) - preserved at the Cupra Marittima Museum of Malacology that I visited a while back, are real and natural. When the shells are immersed in the actual sea water their colours become even brighter.
Sea shells often provided lovely inspirations for fashion collections (a long time ago, my aunt passed onto me a beautiful Genny shirt with prints of shells - I used to like it a lot and eventually wore it out...) and I guess that with the currently available digital media sea shells may offer us new inspirations. I'm sure for example that we could reproduce in prints the actual bright colours of the sea shells when they're underwater and the paler shades they assume once they're out. Anybody interested in experimenting a bit with these shades from the marine depths?
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