Pearls

All pearls are considered as the most beautiful accident, that the mother nature created. Ideal pearls are perfectly spheric, and the nacre reflects beautiful colors. These fantastic pearls occur in nature very rarely as all the natural materials. Moreover, of course, the pearls, are beautiful just because of their imperfection.

The formation of natural pearls

Pearls are formed by a small grain of sand reaching the shell. There is concealed an animate being inside every shell, a mollusk. A mollusk takes this grain as an intruder of its hiding place and begins to defend itself by producing calcium carbonate. By the way, shells and seashells are from this compound. However, instead of expelling it out, a mollusk begins this grain of sand wrap up. This process may take several years to create a pearl for which the pearl fishers dive. This pearl-fishing is today rare and also very expensive. It comes mainly from the Persian Gulf or from Australia, where big ships are fishing these pearls with pearl divers.

Pearls in the picture are freshwater pearls coming mostly from China. Pearl jewels show the perfection of each of small pearls, despite the fact that have different shapes. Some are oval, some have a drop shape, and some are rather round shape. These small pearls have a beautiful pinkish color, and these pearls are cultivated or reared on farms. The image in the middle shows the process of forming of pearl in the freshwater pearl mussel, its cut-out is embedded into bijou metal.

River pearls and how they take form

A large part of the pearl production comes from huge farms, where are bred, especially in Japan, China, and Thailand. From the southern and southeast Asia region, where have the pearl mussels the best conditions, comes the largest production of pearls both marine and freshwater. These pearls are formed by inserting a small bead into the pearl mussel, which is after that covered, where is followed the inserted shape. The subsequent perfection of shape can also be like this influenced, since if an inserted bead is round, the subsequent pearl is also round and if oval, an oval pearl is formed.

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Jewelry from cultivated pearls are the adornments of every woman. There is no woman in the world, to which does not suit pearls and jewelry from pearls. Pearls are very popular in autumn and winter because they are very suitable for darker clothes. In contrast to black clothing, pearls create an elegant look and are a symbol of high social status and luxury. The great lover of pearls was the English Queen Elizabeth, who wore them not only as jewelry but also as an ornament of very expensive gowns. Since then, it is tradition to have a wedding dress stitched with pearls. Wedding dresses also match the pearls in white, and the pearl earrings are the adornments of every bride.

Natural marine pearls that are not artificially created are very rare, and their price may range from several thousand to tens of thousands of crowns, and the price determines the quality of the pearl, that assesses the size, perfection of the shape, the color of the pearls, the overall surface quality and also the brilliance shine pearls. Thanks to modern technology, experts can recognize the genuine marine pearl from cultivated pearls, but without these technologies, the difference is very complicated to recognize.

It is easier to distinguish the genuine pearl from the artificial, which were produced by known Czech manufacturer of bijou jewelry, Jablonex. The process of distinguishing of artificial and genuine pearls is that two genuine pearls (does not matter whether they are cultivated or not) and rub their surface on themselves, we feel more surface chafing than it is artificial pearls. Besides, natural pearls have a beautiful, typically jingle sound, compared to artificial pearls, which also lack pearl shine.

Why wear pearls?

Pearls of all shades and shapes are the jewel of all jewelry and are among the most popular jewels at all. Even in history, the pearls were worn for exceptional occasions and wearing at upper classes, that is why pearls were and still are a symbol of luxury and high social status. Note the old portraits. Most of them are women who have a pearl jewel or a dress adorned with pearls. We offer pearl jewelry either as a pendant, necklace or bracelet and one can say that no woman in the world does not suit pearl earrings made of cultured natural pearls to her.

Pearls in esoteric and healing

Grandmothers used to say that the pearls bring tears. However, with pearls, it is different. The pearls multiply properties that we rather do not show. People who step in front of pearls with pure spirit and conscience then the pearl represents a symbol of purity and spiritual path. The people who have a guilty conscience with bad deeds, then those pearls, repay these deeds. It is very much related to Karma, a symbol of cause and effect in Eastern medicine. In simple terms, do not do to people, what you do not want people to do to you.

Pearls and their species:

Sea pearls

Sea pearls can be both natural and cultivated, so artificially grown. Those natural pearls were previously widespread around the world; today are the natural sea pearls due to the pollution of the seas not much. The most important pearl market is in Bahrain, where pearls from the Persian and Red Seas originate. Another primary market for sea pearls is in the Tahiti and Pacific islands, where darker or other colored pearls come from. Other sea pearl locations are in Japan, China, and Australia. Sea pearls especially very expensive Tahitian pearls are favorite for their unique dark to black color. These pearls are inaccessible to many for the price and are replaced by freshwater pearls, which must not only be in pure white but may also have a variety of pastel colors in dark shades.

Freshwater or river pearls

Freshwater pearls are considered by many as cultivated pearls with lower quality. Of course, there is not the truth at all. Most of the freshwater pearls come from large breeds from China or Japan. The pearls of these breeds are not artificial; they are pearls created by the natural process of wrapping a bead of nacre to create a natural cultivated pearl. However, freshwater pearls can be 100% natural, because not only sea pearls can be natural. Freshwater or river pearls also once originated from Bohemia, especially from the Vltava river and Otava river. Other river pearls can also be found in Russia in the Siberian rivers, which are not polluted by the industry yet. Freshwater pearls from the US, notably the Mississippi River, are also famous.

Pearls may not be just round, but they may be very irregular. The shape of the pearl depends on the shape of the object that gets stacked or inserted into the pearl mussel. In the pictures are freshwater pearls, which are in comparison with sea pearls affordable. In the third picture on the left, the pearl earrings are in a dark blue kerosene color with a conspicuous oval shape. These pearls have a closing fastening that minimizes the risk of losing earrings. In the last picture on the right is a pearl set containing a necklace and a bracelet made of large round pearls in different shades. Pearls are pieced together in color on the necklace, so they contrast very interestingly. This charming pearl set is supplied as a complex with a velvet gift box.