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Freshwater pearls sport a combination of interesting shapes and hues not usually found in saltwater varieties. Freshwater pearls come from Chinese rivers and lakes where the Hyriopsis cumingi mussels can produce 50 pearls at once. They are usually less expensive than saltwater pearls, but no less elegant than their saltwater counterpart.

Birthstones

Precious and semi-precious gems linked to birthdays date as far back as the 15th century. Unlike today, early birthstones were linked to the signs of the Zodiac instead of to calendar months. Almost everyone appreciates a birthstone, and it shows that you actually put some thought into the gift. Many people believe that wearing their birthstone protects them and brings them good luck. When giving a birthstone as a gift, think beyond rings to bracelets, pendants, earrings, pins and chokers.

The chart below contains the official modern birthstones, as established in 1912 by the National Association of Jewelers. Some birthstones have many legends associated with them; you’ll find a brief summary below. This official list applies only to the United States. Several other birthstone lists exist, such as the mystical birthstones, which originated in Tibet and the Ayurvedic birthstones, which originated in India.

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February – Amethyst
-Said to have been worn by St. Valentine, amethyst signifies spirituality and sincerity

March – Aquamarine
-The stone of serenity and courage, also associated with water

April – Diamond
-Banishes evil, promotes goodness, improves financial situations – the world’s favorite precious gem also signifies pure and eternal love, innocence

May – Emerald
-Brings harmony, the stone of life and renewal, love and success

June – Pearl
-Purity, chastity and modesty, health and longevity

July – Ruby
-Devotion, integrity and success – contentment

August – Peridot
-Dignity, success and fame – married happiness

September – Sapphire
-Clears the mind and brings prosperity and clear thinking

October – Opal
-Happiness, beauty, love, magic – hope

November – Topaz
-Brings wisdom and strength of mind, fidelity

December – Turquoise
-Good fortune and prosperity

Enclose a card with the gift explaining the meaning of the birthstone. While most people know their birthstone, few know the significance attached to it.

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About The

Traditionally, the standard for pearl jewelry has been to use white or near-white cultured pearls, freshwater pearls, or natural pearls that are perfectly round. The white, round beauties have been treasured because, in the world of pearl jewelry, they are rare. Increasingly, however, women are appreciating the uniqueness and versatility of pearls in a variety of shapes and colors – just as nature makes them. If you’ve always thought of pearls as white and round, it’s time to think again.

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Round – Traditional round cultured pearls are often used for pearl bridal jewelry, the traditional pearl necklace, and other cultured pearl jewelry, like pearl stud earrings.

Rice – Rice pearls are small and shaped irregularly, and have crinkled surfaces.

Potato – As its name implies, potato-shaped cultured pearls have irregular oblong shapes.

Oval – Shaped like an egg, these saltwater or freshwater pearls are usually white.

Mabe – This pearl is flat on one side, giving it a dome shape.

Keshi – Also known as poppy seed pearls, these are tiny freshwater pearls.

Button – This round freshwater pearl is flat on one side.

Coin – Like the button pearl, except it is flat on both sides.

Baroque – These freshwater pearls are completely free form, having no pre-determined shape.

Circle – Also called the ring pearl, this saltwater pearl has concave, concentric lines.

Pearl Colors

Freshwater pearls, which are often used for fashion pearl jewelry, grow in virtually every color of the rainbow. They are an affordable – though no less beautiful – alternative to traditional white, round saltwater Akoya pearls. Black Tahitian pearls, which are also saltwater cultured pearls, have overtones of peacock and silver and are most often have semi-round, baroque, and circle shapes.

Pearl Fashion Jewelry – What’s Hot Now

Freshwater pearl jewelry offers women an incredible variety of accessory options. This season, look for multi-strand keshi (seed) pearl necklaces that combine different colored pearls, such as pink, peach, hazel, and brown for a stunning fashion statement. For formal occasions, multi-strand necklaces featuring a single color of keshi pearls – such as gray or black – are the perfect accessories.

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Black Tahitian pearl bracelets and shimmering oval freshwater pearl bracelets are adorning the wrists of fashionistas this season, while brides are selecting classic Akoya pearl stud earrings as well as fashion forward freshwater pearl wedding jewelry that incorporates light pink or golden pearls.

The next time you treat yourself – or someone special – to the gift of pearl jewelry, remember that the beauty of pearls comes in many shapes and colors.

Pearls are among the most the most exquisite of the gemstones. Pearl jewelry is considered classically beautiful, and a demonstration of the wearer’s fine taste. Pearls have been used for many purposes, including jewelry, for thousands of years and have become an entire industry, complete with a unique vocabulary.

Pearl

A pearl is a small, round object created by certain species of mollusks. The pearls are created overtime by the mollusk depositing layers of calcium carbonate over an irritating intrusion in its shell. Pearls have a tremendous variety of sizes, shapes, and luster as well as their origination location. These factors all play a role in determining the value of the gemstone.

Freshwater Pearl

A freshwater pearl is created naturally, or most often cultivated, in freshwater mussels in lakes, streams, or ponds. The majority of freshwater pearls are produced in China, and those pearls have a distinctive rainbow luster.

Saltwater Pearl

Saltwater pearls are found in the ocean, generally in small protected coves or bays. Saltwater pearls tend to be the most expensive of the collection as they are more often naturally forming. Saltwater pearls appear in a variety of colors, including white, ivory, pink, yellow, purple, blue, and black. Perfectly round, black saltwater pearls are considered the most valuable.

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When farmers deliberately create pearls by inserting grit into a mollusk, they have cultivated those gemstones. Cultivating pearls began in Japan in the very late 1800s, and the process is now responsible for almost all pearls used in jewelry today. Cultivation includes implanting a small piece of polished abalone into a mussel along with an irritant to stimulate production. The pearl takes roughly three years to cultivate, and when it is removed, the mussel is often used again to create another pearl.

Cultivated pearls are considered less valuable than natural pearls, but to determine the difference, an x-ray machine must be used by a jeweler. Cultivated pearls will have a perfect sphere at the center, while naturally occurring pearls will have an irregular center.

Imitation Pearl

Imitation pearls are often used in jewelry, but are not naturally created or cultivated. They are manufactured. Imitation pearls are easy to identify as they are made of difference substances such as glass, abalone, mother-of-pearl, or conch shells. The weight and smoothness of imitation pearls is very dissimilar from real pearls, and the imitation is the least expensive pearl available.

Pearl Jewelry

Overtime, jewelers have used pearls in a variety of ways. Rings, bracelets, brooches, earrings and necklaces use different styles of pearls, and the resulting creations are considered elegant. Necklaces enjoy the greatest range of styles, and this assortment has resulted in very specific names.

Collar – A collar of pearls sits directly at the throat and is generally comprised of multiple strands.

Choker- A choker sits slightly lower than the collar, at the base of a woman’s throat.

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Princess – A princess drapes to or slightly below the collar bones.

Matinee of Pearls – The matinee comes slightly lower than the princess, ending on a woman’s chest.

Opera – An opera reaches past the bosom to the sternum.

Pearl Rope – The pearl rope is a length of pearls exceeding the opera.

So what exactly is a pearl? Cultured, natural, akoya, freshwater….do these terms confuse you?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

We all understand cultured anything else…after all we don’t usually find our strawberries in the forest anymore. Our farm is filled with wild parsnips…but if I want parnsips I buy them at the grocery store….they’re much bigger and better developed.

Well, pearls are much the same way…either “wild” or “cultured”.

“Wild” pearls are called “natural” pearls. Although, often the term “natural” is also used to specify whether or not the color is natural….so keep that in mind.

Natural pearls, the only kind available centuries ago, are rare and valuable…if available at all. The country of Bahrain, however, still deals in natural pearls…in fact, selling of cultured pearls is illegal there.

Remember seeing those old painting of the queens all draped with long ropes of pearls? Those were most likely “natural pearls,” although, even back then, they had ways of making artificial pearls.

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Natural pearls are still being found all over the world…even 10 miles from my home here in eastern Iowa, people find natural freshwater pearls in the Mississippi River.

Ahhhhh, “freshwater”….now just what does that mean? That’s an easy one. Any pearl found in a body of water that’s freshwater, like a lake, river, creek, is a “freshwater” pearl.

“Sea pearls” or “saltwater pearls” are found in bodies of saltwater such as oceans, seas, or gulfs.

So what exactly does “cultured” mean? Is it a “real” pearl?

Well….are the strawberries you buy at the grocery store “real strawberries”?

Yes, “cultured pearls” are “real pearls.”

Say someone really liked strawberries, but could never find enough of them in the woods, or the ones they found were too small, or too tasteless?

That person is glad that some intelligent folks figured out how to propagate strawberries and develop them into large, sweet, red gems that explode with flavor.

Cultured pearls happen much the same way…through planning, development and farming techniques.

My son planted strawberry seeds this year in a planter. Without the seeds, no strawberry plants would have sprouted.

Without a little help most mussels or oysters won’t grow a pearl either.

But there are ways to “start a pearl” growing in these mollusks (or molluscs). (Mollusks are any of numerous chiefly marine invertebrates of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a soft unsegmented body, a mantle, and a protective calcareous shell and including the edible shellfish and the snails.)

Several people worked on figuring out to start a pearl growing, but Mikimoto is often the man credited with carrying the process to full development.

It’s similar to taking a plant cutting. Has your mother ever visited a friend’s garden who shared a “slip” of geranium with her so she could start her own plant?

Well, in a similar way, to get a cultured pearl started, the mollusk needs a piece of mantle tissue from another mollusk.

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A tiny piece of mantle tissue from a mussel or oyster is inserted into a live mollusk which is set back into a body of water. A “pearl sac” is developed around the piece and the mollusk begans coating the tissue with layers of nacre….the substance of pearls….making a pearl.

Often, for both sea and freshwater pearls, along with the tissue is placed a shell bead which can be a variety of shapes. The mollusk then coats this bead with pearl substance. This way, the shape of pearl can be controlled.

Those big beautiful round lustrous pearls that have always been popular are often mostly a shell bead inside with a coating of pearl on the outside. Are they real pearls? Yes! But be sure to buy from a reputable seller to make sure the coating is thick enough not to peel or wear off.

An akoya pearl, by the way, is a pearl from the akoya oyster (Pinctada Fucata Martensii), which lives in salt water.

Most freshwater pearls from Asia are nearly solid nacre…you don’t need to worry about them peeling.

In Tennessee, however, cultured freshwater pearls are grown around a shell shape making intriguing pearls which are extremely durable and lustrous.

Because more pearls can be grown in freshwater mussels than saltwater oysters, the price is often much more affordable.

Saltwater, freshwater, natural or cultured pearls…all are amazing gifts from God…and the lowly, humble mollusk.

Enjoy those pearls! The mollusks worked hard to make them for you.

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1. There are two types of pearls–natural and cultured. In today’s market just about every pearl you see will be cultured, i.e. the hand of man had something to do with manufacturing the pearl.

2. We are experiencing a pearl renaissance. There are more types of pearls on the market than ever before. Twenty years ago the Japanese Akoya stood virtually alone. Today you can choose from: Freshwater pearls, South Sea white, Tahitian black, and South Sea golden pearls.

3. What’s the best buy in pearls? The Chinese Freshwater Pearl. These pearls are cultured without a bead and are pure pearl. They are available in natural pastel or white. The best will stand toe-to-toe with any pearl in the world, and can be purchased for a third of the price.

4. Pearls are often treated, usually to change or improve the color. Natural colors are, by far, the most beautiful. Japanese Akoya, the pearl that is seen most in the market, is routinely bleached white, then dyed, to give it a pinkish overtone.

5. A fine pearl has what experts call “life”. This is a combination of high surface luster and overtone, an ephemeral misty glow that seems to hover over the surface of the pearl. In white pearls the overtone will normally be pink. In black pearls, the overtone will be green, red or blue. Look at the pearl(s) under a light bulb; if you can distinctly see the outline of the bulb, the pearl has high luster.

6. To judge if all the pearls in a strand are round, hold the strand taut between your hands and rotate the strand; if some of the pearls jump about, the strand is not completely round.

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7. Pearls have flaws just like other gems. These may be dimples, scratches or cracks. A few dimples here and there should not be of much concern, but a scratch or crack is unacceptable in a fine strand.

8. Odd shaped pearls, called baroques, are not to be disparaged if they have good luster and no scratches or cracks. These pearls tend to be a bit less formal, with a younger, hipper look than the more expensive rounds, and they are available at a substantially lower price.

9. Beware the Japanese Akoya pearl. If your grandmother or mother has a strand of white round pearls, they are likely Akoya. These pearls are formed by placing a shell bead in the oyster. In the last few years, Japanese farmers have dramatically reduced the time the pearl is allowed to develop, resulting in pearls with less than ? millimeter of pearl essence over the shell bead. These pearls lack luster and are prone to flaking.

10. Pearls come in many nuances of color, but color is not the issue. The real question is how the pearl looks against the skin of the intended wearer–a characteristic I call simpatico. Don’t prejudge, test the simpatico of each strand by placing it against the skin on the inside of the wrist. The skin in this area is the same color and texture as the skin around the ears and neck. The result may surprise you.

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