China. A mysterious place full of traditions, legends and a thousand-year old hystory. Nowadays in the pearl field China is a “super power“, thanks to the massive quantity of pearls which is able to produce and find some exceptional specimen among them. But even in ancient times pearls had an important role in Chinese culture, […]
Since always Japan has been known and renowned for its great history and traditions, deeply rooted in its population: the pearl cultivation is no exception and the same country gives birth to this tecnique which later evolved into a true industrial sector. Many freshwater and salt water pearls are cultivated in Japan – like the […]
As well known in this field not only the classic natural gems covered in precious mother-of-pearl fall under the description of “pearl“, but also all the other gems with chalky origin produced by other mussels like the Cassis pearls. Cassis pearls, like many others with non nacreic nature, have that typical prismatic structure right under […]
Since any gemologic investigation can scientifically define if an akoya pearl was cultivated in the Japanese Seas or Eastern China ones (on the contrary of its nature, if it has a nucleus, fresh water or salt water, multilayered, ecc.) it’s really to even create any type of branding on regular basis. But the operator don’t […]
In the last century pearl’s world has been subjected to drastic evolution with the introduction of “pearl cultivation” which made this field a true industry, not only a simple extraction or manufacturing activity: this revolution started in Japan thanks to the world wide famouse pioneer of pearl cultivation, Kokichi Mikimoto, who in 1920 along with […]
Natural pearls are in and of itself great treasures to find in nature, but sometimes nature exceeds itself gifting us with even more valuable treasures like the Abernathy pearl, the most perfect freshwater pearl ever found on the coasts of Scotland. With its extraordinary weight of 44 grains this pearl is certainly not the most […]
Every day can be right one to make a great discovery and the protagonists of this finding, some French researchers, know this very well: during the excavation these researchers from the Laboratoire Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité have brought to light the most ancient pearl in the world. Discovered in the Emirate of Umm al […]
The Pinna seashells are really famous for being the “silkworms” of the sea thanks to their particular ability to produce byssus, a totally natural textile material which is really fine and especially appreciated for the art of embroidery. But not everybody knows that these mussels are sometimes able to produce some pearls called Pinna pearls. […]
A normal day of fishing may become one of the most important discoveries in the pearl history: last june during a simple trawling beat a fisherman found a very unusual thing among the harvest from his net, a giant fossilized oyster. After being duly cleaned from the think layers of mud, this prehistoric mussel has […]
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