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It's all black pearls from Tahiti, and what is the difference between a cultured pearl and a pearl of nature? Lower than saltwater pearls are freshwater pearls? South Sea pearls really golden?

Good questions. With all the different colors of beads and there may be difficult to know what you see. For those interested in buying pearls, nor precious stones fans wanting more, here are answers to some of the questions most frequently asked questions about pearls. 

Not only pearls from Tahiti is not only black, not grown in Tahiti. Called black? Because of their exotic dark colors, black pearls of Tahiti can also be gray, blue, green and brown. It is known in lagoons of small islands that are part of a group of French Polynesia is now theyre. Tahiti, the largest island, serves as a center of trade groups, and not as a capital increase of pearls.

 Tahitian pearls are cultivated for about two years Pinctada margaritifera cumingi, a large clam native to French Polynesia. One of the ways this unique oyster differs from other species within the shell color is dark. These so-called black lips; Auster also has black mantle edges edgesthe?, Giving the animal a descriptive name.

Today, pearls from Tahiti is the most sought-after dark-green to gray-blue gray Ros; or purple shades. The Pearl color is determined by several factors, including changes in the host oyster, color variation of tissue implanted donor mussel, the number and thickness of layers of nacre, and variations in the development environment such as temperature and water quality. Tahitians are mostly variations of gray, is black, green and blue and other colors.

 With an average size of 8 mm-14mm, Tahitian cultured pearlsespecially samples, roundare gem and is very expensive. According to recent information provided by the Gemological Institute of America, to produce up to 40 percent of the black lip oyster implanted cultured gem quality, but generate only 5 percent of pearls are round. And only 1-2 percent of the total harvest is rounded to the highest quality pearls. No wonder a Tahitian pearl strand is so expensive! If you wear pearls from Tahiti, in a way, for many, not wishing to make a fortune, is a trailer-style necklace with pearl earrings to choose a pearl, a pearl ring, or baroque (non - beads) symmetric. These projects are as exotic and far less costly than the comparison with a blade.

What is the difference between a cultured pearl and a pearl of nature?

Natural pearls are formed when a cute as a parasite, makes his way to an animal, like a pearl oyster or clam.

For protection, the coats of animals irritant in nacre combination of organic substances, which also makes what we call nacre. Over time, layers of nacre around created by the attacker, and finally the organic gem, we all know that the pearl.

Pearls formed in the same way as natural pearls, with one big difference: their origin, not accidental, but deliberately, when man intervenes with nature. Pearls around, qualified engineers, known for the production of nucleator, causing pearl cultivation process of acquiring surgical Irritanti mother-of-pearl bead and a piece of mantle tissue, usuallyinto a shellfish. The animal is then placed in the water back and checked, cleaned, etc. until the pearl is ready to be harvested.

The Chinese blister freshwater cultured pearls (pearls which grow under the shell of the animal to cover material) from the 13th century, but Kokichi Mikimoto, a Japanese, is credited with developing modern technical pearls.
It was early 1920, the Mikimoto pearls sold worldwide.

Real pearls can be very beautiful, but because of overfishing, pollution and other factors, is a rare find indeed. Thus, nearly all pearls are cultured pearls sold today. There are two main types: freshwater and saltwater. South pearls from the sea, are the Tahitian pearls and Akoya pearls are cultivated all types of saltwater pearls. Beads of all kinds can be found worldwide in jewelry stores.

Pearls are saltwater pearls better than freshwater?
It depends who you ask, but many pearl experts today agree that the cultivation of freshwater can rival the beauty of their saltwater cousins. Due to improved techniques for cultivation of freshwater farmers producing beautiful pearls, round, lustrous pearls, a big improvement over the wrinkled, Rice Krispies shaped stones, typical of the culture of pearls  fresh water is not too distant past.

Produced mainly in China, freshwater pearls are often stone or implanted with mantle tissue only (rather than the mother of pearl beads). Because it is a basic bead, tissue-cultured pearls freshwater pearl based 100%. This gives them a nice nuclear light and durable surface that reveals easy to maintain, or flakes of skin in the inner heel. In contrast, beads, pearls harvested too soon often have only a thin layer of nacre that flakes or Peel. This is a major problem: Unlike many other gemstones, pearls, can be polished back to perfection.

Cultured freshwater pearls in many pastel colors beautiful natural locations, including cream, white, yellow is orange, pink and purple.
(Right internationally flattering lavender pearls are very popular today.) White pearls are bleached to enhance their natural shine. Black freshwater pearls with a dye or thermal processing to produce the color black.

Overall, freshwater pearls are more likely than other types of pearls, so generally favorable.

South Sea pearls really golden?

Yes. Pearls lips aptly named  gold produced; can oyster (maxima S.), a beautiful creamy yellow, known as gold? In trade. (Money range edges of P. maxima produces beautiful silver or white pearl.) Seaswhich in the south extending high in South Asia to the south coast of the North Coast Australiathese pearls grown into one of the biggest oysters used in pearl culture. Because it can not accept more pearl and secrete nacre faster than their smaller counterparts, these older oysters produce pearls of high brightness and exceptional beauty. Pearl of the South Sea; thick layer of nacre gives the gems a beautiful shine, or glow, which appears to come from deep within the pearl. Warm water, abundant food and help low contamination of the South Seas also help these oysters produce beautiful pearls.

Although Australia produces 60% of the pearls of the sea of world culture in the south of the Indonesian farmers working with gold lip oyster, and thus produce more golden beads. Money-range products such as lip beautiful pearls come in white and silver and often ros; blue or green shades. Besides them a light wash, do not deal with South Sea pearls, pearl farmers after harvest.