{"id":6777,"date":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/imitations\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:00:00","slug":"imitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/imitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitations"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the spread of natural pearls, in 17th century<\/strong> a clever rosary-bead craftman found by accident the method to craft imitations<\/strong> of this precious natural gem with a pearlescent mixture, now famous as “orient essence<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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Even if nowadays this special mixture is used to craft high quality imitations, like the Majorca pearls, there are several other types of imitations:<\/p>\n

– glass beads filled with beewax<\/strong>, created with the original process and easily found in antique jewellery;
\n– solid glass beads<\/strong>, like the Majorca ones, coated with pearl essence or other mixtures, for example plastic, cellulose or varnish, up to 40 layers;
\n– plastic pearls<\/strong>, of very low quality, that can have the same treatment of the solid glass ones;
\n– mother-of-pearl beads<\/strong>, obtained from the mother-of-pearl layer inside the shell of the mussel, and frequently descripted “semi-cultivated”, atering the meaning of imitation to make it more tempting to the costumer and defining them very valuable, even if they are available for a few dollars per rope.<\/p>\n

Imitations, born before the official cultivation to provide a less expensive and rare substitute<\/strong> for natural pearls, have soon become the first way to obtain pearls at a greatly lower price than the natural ones, even if extremely inferior about beauty and autenticity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the spread of natural pearls, in 17th century a clever rosary-bead craftman found by accident the method to craft imitations of this precious natural gem with a pearlescent mixture, now famous as “orient essence“. Even if nowadays this special mixture is used to craft high quality imitations, like the Majorca pearls, there are several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-and-curiosity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}