White Biwa Pearl
Facts About Pearl Accessories
Pearls truly make a wonderful and elegant accessory. May it be an earring, a bracelet, or a necklace, pearls can match to whatever occasion, may it be some cocktail parties or weddings to complement the attire. Every woman loves to own a pair of pearl jewelry. But the enigma behind a pearl why it is considered precious remains a mystery to many of those who appreciate it.
While other jewels are buried deep below the earth, pearl is the only jewelry that is produced by a living creature. Pearls are cultivated in an oyster as part of a biological defense mechanism against foreign bodies. Once a foreign body gets in an oyster, the oyster’s natural reaction is to cover up that thing to protect itself. The foreign body may either be a piece of sand or a food particle which the oyster considers an irritant and signals itself for protection. The oyster coats the irritant with layers of aragonite and conchiolin, and the composite material is called nacre. That is what gives pearls their luster, making it unique and distinctive from other jewelries.
The naturally formed pearl may not eventually have a perfect shape as the ones you usually see on ready-made accessories. To produce pearls with elaborate shapes, it has to be cultured in a pearl farm where the farmer makes it possible for several lovely shapes. Pearls can be round and oval and some rare shapes of off-round which are ’roundish’ to the eye but have a slightly oval or flattened shape, button that are round on one side and flat on the other, baroque which is a general term for irregular shape, Keishi are accidents which happen when the mollusk rejects the nucleus and grows a ‘free form’ pearl, and Biwa which is derived from Lake Biwa – a large freshwater lake near Kyoto in Japan which was once the focus of the Japanese freshwater pearl industry but ceased in 1980′s due to industrial pollution. The shape of the pearl is determined by the foreign body that is stuck on the shell.
Pearls also come in different colors ranging from black to white, with the rose of Indian pearls esteemed most. Other colors are cream, gray, blue, yellow, lavender, green, and mauve. All occur in delicate shades. The oyster is being treated by a farmer to produce different colors but without harming the mollusk itself.
Pearls can be produced by a freshwater or saltwater oyster and are more commonly cultured. Cultured pearls are created by the same process as natural pearls, but are given a slight nudge by pearl farmers. To create a cultured pearl, the harvester opens the oyster shell and cuts a small slit in the mantle tissue. Small irritants are then inserted under the mantle. In freshwater cultured pearls, cutting the mantle is enough to induce the nacre secretion that produces a pearl – an irritant doesn’t have to be inserted. While cultured and natural pearls are considered to be of equal quality, cultured pearls are generally less expensive because they aren’t as rare.
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