Know Your cultured Pearl Types

Know Your cultured Pearl Types When buying pearls, the customer is presented with the terminology is not always known. Akoya, Freshwater, Tahitian, South Sea ... What do all these? In order to make the best decision when buying pearls, it is important to know the differences between this type of pearls and why some are more expensive than others. Here are the different types of cultured pearls and how they are grown. South Sea Pearls South Sea Pearls cultivated mainly in the waters off Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Some are wrongly found water pearls from Tahiti and French Polynesia and the pearl of the Black Sea called South. The distinction between these two types of pearl oysters that are cultivated in the South Sea pearls are grown in silver or gold-lipped pearl oyster and the color of South Sea pearls are generally white or silver color, but can also come in shades of yellow or blue-gray with shades of pink or green. The gold-lipped oyster used to culture these pearls (pinctada maxima) is the world's largest pearl mother and is considered by experts to produce the best pearls in the world. The size of the pearls Products range in size from 10 to 20 millimeters, though pearls larger than 16 millimeters Are rare. Their rarity and exceptional sizes make them much appreciated. These are some of the largest and most expensive pearls available. Tahiti Pearls Pearls or South Sea Black Sometimes referred to as the Pearl of the South Black Sea, 'Tahitian pearls are cultured in areas stretching from the Cook Islands, Tahiti and eastward through the Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. Grown in the black lipped pearl oyster (pinctada margaritifera) found in the atolls of these areas. The colors produced vary widely from purple, green, black and shades of Gray and white cream. The most rare and much sought after color is "peacock green" - the greenish black color of a peacock feather. Black Tahitian pearls are generally lower than in the south of the White Sea pearls in size ranging from 7 to 15 Mm. Japanese Akoya pearls or Probably the best known name for a type of Akoya pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata Martensil). Most of the Akoya pearls are still produced in Japan, but is also grown in an increasingly large scale in China and India. Akoya oyster only six to nine centimeters across - less than half the size of Australia's silver lipped pearl oyster. Smaller nuclei are implanted so the resulting pearls Range of 2 to 10 millimeters in diameter. Considered the classic cultured pearls, Akoya pearls are mostly round or oval and are produced in shades of white and cream shades with pink or silver. Freshwater pearls The freshwater pearls are small, sometimes irregularly shaped pearls that are cultivated in different species of freshwater mussels. The color pink gray or black, bronze, lavender, white. Natural pearls, freshwater mussels occur for the same reason saltwater pearls occur in oysters. Foreign material, usually a sharp object or parasite, enters a mussel and can not be expelled. To reduce irritation, the mollusk coats the intruder with the same secretion it uses to build the shell pearl. Freshwater pearls on Culture, the shells of mussels are slightly open, cut small holes in the mantle tissue and small pieces of live tissue from another mussel is inserted into the openings. The shape of the nucleus and its position in the mussel determines the shape of cultured pearls. The pieces are recovered rounds, pears, eggs, beads, buttons, Dome and the baroque. Most of pearls cultured fresh water are composed entirely of nacre which leads to Their high brightness and quality. The pearls are nursed for up to three years to achieve the brightness and quality, a trademark of cultured pearls and our fresh water pearls. Pearls by Angela Carol Fine Pearl is a retailer that offers necklaces, earrings, bracelets and pendants at prices much lower than the value of the pearls.