lustrous pearls

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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Freshwater Pearls are often designed for the column of fashion jewelry. These pearls are virtually found in each color of a rainbow. They can be afforded and are more beautiful than the saltwater round Akoya pearls. Next time, when you are trying to buy some jewelry, try going for pearls as you will able to get each color matching to your outfit.

Akoya name means saltwater in Japanese language and for decades pearl industry has been extensively selling these most lustrous pearls to the consumers and even now it commands a very decent share when it comes selling and buying pearl jewelry among pearl jewelers and consumers. Akoya pearls are the classic cultured pearls of Japan. Akoya pearls luster is intense, their nacre is thick and colors brilliant. Undoubtedly, they carry higher values than freshwater pearls.

Although Japan is the originator of producing akoya pearls, so to say, as Kokochi Mikimoto of Japan had invented and patented the bead-nucleating technology of culturally growing these pearls in the seawater. Akoya pearls are primarily cultivated in the sea salt waters off the coastal areas of Japan and China but in recent years China is producing in large quantity and their quality is exceeding remarkable. With new improved modern techniques of culturing pearls, it has become possible to harvest better quality akoya pearls. It takes about 3-5 years to grow nice quality akoya pearls and pearl farms in China and Japan constantly monitor its growth during this period in order to get good harvest as well as good quality akoya pearls.

Very small mantle tissue beads are implanted inside the Pinctada fucata martensii oysters to form beautiful akoya pearls. Akoya oyster rarely produces more than two pearls whereas freshwater oysters are nucleated to produce about fifty pearls each. Akoya pearls normally take longer time to grow and the total quantity comparatively is not very large due to variable seawater climatic conditions and oysters’ mortality.

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