Once they have been harvested, pearls have to be cleaned and washed in order to take away all the organic dirt and brackish smell with barrels full of grains of salt, and this process has to be followed really carefully in order to prevent the cracking or flaking of the nacre. But, beside this natural […]
These regular and perfect pearls, available in commerce, are the result of a careful selection, ruled by rigid parameters that have the primary purpose of launching only the best pearls in the luxury market. To assure the sublime quality, the Japan Pearl Exporters’ Association established a new selection method applicable on all the peals, and […]
Big, round shaped, white with a particular opalescence. South Sea pearls, or “australian” ones, are the rarest and biggest in circulation, produced by the biggest pearl oysters in the world, the Pinctada Maxima. During the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of a very prolific mussels’ bed, these “queens of pearls” became really popular in […]
Since their discovery, pearls have never gone out of fashion, going unharmed through every time and style and adorning neck and clothes of many famous historical characters, like Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Empress Eugenia and Margherita of Savoia, the “queen of pearls“. But their true consecration came with Coco Chanel, creator of contemporary fashion, saying that […]
The firsts to discover the ethereal beauty of pearls were eastern populations, a lot more before European West and even Egypt, using them not only to create magnificent jellewery but to adorne clothes, hair and objects. Later on, when it became popular among Greeks in the Hellenic period, the pearl’s fame spread like a wildfire, […]
Since the birth of internal combustion engine and consequent need of petrol, petroleum race started to be more and more frantic and, albeit the growing adopted tecnology to avoid tragedies, environmental disasters are now countless. Once spilled in the sea, oil spread into the water creating a patina that changes depending on temperature and movement […]
Despite the poor results of the first attempts, pearl cultivation is a rich and thriving business that produces every year a big revenue. Unfortunately, for this reason, it has been amplyfied causing a savage colture which has yet begun to compromise the growth of the precious oysters. In 1994, to obviate to this limitless exploitation […]
There are many types of pearls, mysterious and fascinating, but the pearl that most sums up the true meaning of exotic and charming is the Tahiti one, the black pearl. The cultivation of this particular pearl began in 1960 in French Polinesia by Jean Marie Dormand; after the first experiments done in Hikeru and Bora […]
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