Natural Sun Dried Sea Sponge, unbleached, measuring approximately 9-1/2 inches long, 8-1/2 inches wide and 8 inches high.  Use for decorating and displaying air plants. Our sea sponge have been sun dried and may have a fishy odor.  They have not been treated, sealed or bleached.  They are 100% real - not synthetic. 

These sea sponges are harvested by divers.  Sponge diving has been a family tradition in many areas around the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Florida. They have been used as cleaning tools for thousands of years. Sea sponge is used by artists, home decorators and painters.  It can also be used for washing vehicles and boats, general household cleaning and for bathing.  When wet, it becomes very soft.

 

 Sea sponges are very simple animals that live on the ocean floor. They attach themselves permanently to an anchorage, and move sea water through their bodies, filtering out tiny organisms for food. The channels that the water flows through account for their hole-riddled structure, and is what makes their composition so useful.