Pearls - the Queen of jewelry

Over the centuries, pearls are widely used in jewelry for girls and women. pearl necklaces are the epitome of jewelry, and property was estimated at hundreds of years. In fact, the term "gem" is a synonym for fine, rare and precious. In the past, pearls adorned costumes. But because of the high cost of balls, it was restricted to the royal family and other wealthy families. But today, the use of beads is mainly limited to the jewelry industry. The popularity of beads is mainly due to their brightness and play. In some rare cases, balls today with makeup.

Pearls grow in the soft tissues or mussel shell or oysters. If foreign or irritating, such as sand or a parasite enters the particle shell, mussels selects material to cover the irritating in thin layers. It's a defense mechanism. Coverage is considered a "gem" and fine-grained calcium carbonate with a biological glue. Nacre gradually increasing the size and hardens, forming a pearl, we know. On the 20 th century, the introduction of release beautiful pearl remained completely to nature. These balls were and are "natural" pearls. Others come back to dive on the floor of the sea beds of pearl oysters. Oysters were opened and killed the creature in order to collect pearls. Many mollusks have been destroyed in order to find a few pearls, natural pearls are so expensive. One round natural pearl is now a collector item and single-strand necklace of natural pearls can be adjusted to cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Availability and popularity of fashion pearl jewelry today can be traced directly in a process called "periculture. Periculture process used to create cultured pearls. Stimulus required to trigger the development of the pearl is made available to people. External stimulus, such as a small ball or tissue from the" donor "clam in the mantle of an oyster or mollusk host to use. Each oyster can accommodate up to a dozen of these inserts, leading to a dozen or more balls of each node. pearl farms in Asia (especially China) is currently commercially cultured pearls. cultured pearls are much cheaper than natural pearls, and very popular in jewelry.

Pearls are usually white or light cream, but a variety of colors are also available on the market today. Color of pearls depends on the mollusk that produces pearls. Dark, like pearls and Tahitian pearls are rare and therefore very expensive. All other properties are equal, the more pearls are more expensive than smaller pearls. Beads can usually be found in the eight basic forms: circular, semicircular, buttons, drop, pear, oval, Baroque and circled. Perfectly round pearls are the most rare and valuable. Semi-rounds are also studying the necklace or in part, where a disguised form of pearls, as a perfectly round pearl is used. Button pearls are like a slightly flattened round pearl and can also make a necklace. Drop and pear shaped pearls are mostly used in pendants and earrings.