This week is pearls week on the Blog

A pearl is simply an object produced within the soft tissue of a mollusk and is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers usually around some irritant that has found its way into the mollusk. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes of pearls such as baroque pearls occur.


The finest quality natural pearls are highly valued as objects of beauty and because of this, the word pearl has become a metaphor for something very rare, fine, admirable, and valuable.



Women have valued the feel of pearls on their skin since time immemorial.


It is said that a woman wearing pearls always looks stylish no mater what she is doing or how unseemly.



The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but they are extremely rare. These wild pearls are referred to as natural pearls. Cultured or farmed pearls from pearl oysters and freshwater mussels make up the majority of those that are currently sold. Imitation or fake pearls are also widely sold in inexpensive jewelry, but the quality of their iridescence is usually poor, and generally speaking, artificial pearls are easily distinguished from genuine pearls.