A rare luxury cloth with a beautiful golden sheen, known as sea silk, was made from the long silky filaments or byssus produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean seashell.
The cloth has been claimed to be made of a rare fiber called byssus, which is a natural fiber coming from a bivalve mollusc Pinna nobilis, woven into sea silk, and used by ancient people mainly around the Mediterranean coasts .
Laurus nobilis | Rosh Pinna | Pinna nobilis | Peltodoris nobilis | Hepatica nobilis | Steatoda nobilis | Live specimen of ''Pinna nobilis'', in Levanto, Liguria | Lebeda nobilis | Deckenia nobilis | Banksia nobilis |