Precious Things

Purchase beaded jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. The cultured pearls are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention, is an irritant introduced into the tank makes a pearl to grow. Imitation pearls are man-made with glass, plastic or organic materials. Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are cultured [...]

Nearly all pearls sold today are cultured pearls on the farm. Most farmers raise their own oysters with eggs and sperm of high quality that have developed over the years. When the oysters have matured enough, a mother of pearl pearl found in the internal tissue. X-rays are used to monitor your progress until harvest. [...]