| It is actually true... just not true for freshwater pearls.
South Sea producers have been working on this for years. Joseph Taylor from Atlas Pearl in Indonesia, for example, has been creating white South Sea pearls from a predominantly gold-lip native stock by selective breeding and other techniques. Jewelmer does the opposite with gold-lip, darkening the the mother of pearl to a deep gold and increasing the output of gold South Sea pearls instead of creams and yellows.
I think the quote from that blog is combining two different stories to come to the wrong conclusion. |