When it comes to Pearls the most common questions I have received over the past several years as a freshwater pearl jewelry manufacturer and dealer would have to be what are the difference between freshwater and cultured pearls and pearl jewelry? Simply put 99.999% of all pearl jewelry found in the world market of today is in fact cultured.
The only difference is that freshwater pearl jewelry are only a single type of cultured pearls. Akoya, Tahitian and South Sea Pearls are in fact all cultured pearls.The current trend of confusion for the general public seems that they are led to believe pearl jewelry such Japanese Akoyas, South Sea or even Tahitian Pearls are all natural pearls when in fact as their freshwater siblings they are in fact cultured pearls...A cultured pearl is a pearl that has been created with the help of human interaction at the very start of the process.
Human intervention is required to allow the process of pearl nacre formation to begin, the task requires surgical precision to be successful but from that point on nature take over.
The irony of all of this would be that high quality gem quality freshwater pearls are in fact all nacre which would be the closet type of pearl to a truly natural pearl that may have been found 500 years ago.... Did you know that all salwater pearls which include the Japanese Akoya's, Australian South Sea's and Tahitian Pearls are nearly all started with a round plastic bead that is inserted the mollusk and pearl nacre starts to form around it ?
So the choice is yours a round plastic bead with pearl nacre coated around it or a gem quality all nacre freshwater pearl just like were being created millions of years ago.. the choice is yours but I know where I would spend my money.
Quality Freshwater Pearl Jewelry has been a passion of Pearlsintime.com, as direct importers we know pearls and love to give people the correct and accurate information about what we love.
By Marc Muhammad
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