 | How to take care of pearls | |
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Put pearls on after hair spray, cosmetics and perfumes. Remove your pearls
before strenuous activities or bathing. Avoid repeated exposure of your pearls
to high heat sources. Clean with a warm damp cloth. Store your pearls in a
soft cloth pouch (like we send along with the purchase). Take your pearls for a
check-up once a year. Celebrate...
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| How to select | |
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When purchasing pearls, it is best to take into careful consideration the type
of person you are buying for. Are they traditional or contemporary? Do they have
a particular style or a specific taste regarding color or texture? Other factors
to take into account are the pearls price range and their quality.
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| Value factors | |
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Each pearl's value depends on a number of factors that in combination
attribute to the worth of it. These factors are: Size : Just to put it in
perspective a difference of only 1mm can double of triple the price of the
pearl. The size of a pearl is determined by...
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| FW Vs Sea Water | |
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Speaking of freshwater pearls, a category of inferior pearls of small size and
irregular shape may come into mind. This may have been the case ten years ago.
For many years, China's freshwater pearl farms only produced low quality
"rice" pearls, whereas seawater pearls were more spherical and of
better quality. Recent years have seen...
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| Types of Cultured Pearls | |
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Cultured pearls can be divided in two main categories, Freshwater and Seawater
pearls. The Seawater pearls can also be subdivided into three categories, Akoya,
Tahitian and South Sea pearls. Freshwater pearls: All pearls producing
countries combined can only produce...
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| Cultured pearls VS natural pearls | |
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A natural pearl begins its creation as a foreign object. A piece of sand gets
lodged inside an oyster's inner body where it cannot be expelled. The oyster
goes into defensive action and secrets a substance called nacre around the
irritant to protect itself. For how ever long the irritant remains within the
body the oyster will continue to...
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| Origin | |
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Pearls were created when a foreign body of some sort, such as a grain of sand
or a parasite, found its way into a pearl oyster. The oyster reacted by coating
the irritant with layer upon layer of the pearly substance known as 'nacre',
that gives the pearl its unique appearance and iridescent beauty. This unique
relationship gave birth to the...
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| Pearl Colors and Overtones | |
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Cultured pearls come in a variety of colors natural from brilliant white,
colorful pastels and dark blacks.
There are treated pearls as well. This
treatment is permanent and allows for pearl options that were not previously
available. As a matter of fact, treated black Akoya have been available in fine
jewelry houses since the 1930's.
The overtone of a pearl is the color the
color...
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| I'm not sure which pearls to select? | |
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When purchasing pearls it is best to take into careful consideration what sort
of person you are buying for. Are they traditional, contemporary, do they have a
particular style of their own? If you have some knowledge of their tastes, then
would they prefer black, pink or white pearls? Other factors to take into
account are the pearls price range and their quality. <br> At...
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| How can I tell if my pearls are real? | |
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Natural and and cultured pearls are formed by oysters and other mollusks over a
period of time. When a foreign object or parasite enters the oyster or mollusk
it irritates it in such a way that it causes it to secrete many layers of nacre
otherwise referred to as nacre until the offending object it is no longer an
irritant. The build up of this nacre is what creates the pearl. This is how
real...
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| How do I pick the perfect pearl color? | |
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Selecting your ideal set of pearls can be an extremely personal experience or,
if selecting for another, somewhat of a challenge.The color of a pearl has a
very real association with the person it will be worn by and should reflect
their tastes, personality and complement them aesthetically.
White pearls
are timeless. Denoting the wearer'selegance and class, they epitomize...
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