ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 8 days agoA piano made of mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, from 1853, New York Citylemmy.worldimagemessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down19
arrow-up1435arrow-down1imageA piano made of mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, from 1853, New York Citylemmy.worldickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square45linkfedilink
minus-squareYaky@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·8 days agoJust to infuriate you more: Plastics originally were viewed as a great alternative to such waste - instead of ivory, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, expensive wood, you could use this human-made, often much stronger, material in different colors. …and look where we are now.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days agoThose poor savages back then, with tortoise shell particles in their blood probably /s
Just to infuriate you more: Plastics originally were viewed as a great alternative to such waste - instead of ivory, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, expensive wood, you could use this human-made, often much stronger, material in different colors.
…and look where we are now.
Those poor savages back then, with tortoise shell particles in their blood probably
/s