| You hear story after story after story in China about the different processes. You really cannot believe anything until you see it with your own eyes. I have never seen freshwater pearls dyed with a laser before.
I have heard the laser story previously, although I have never seen anything remotely resembling a laser changing colors of freshwater pearls. This last trip I was told by a seller at Ruans that the new gold color they are producing is done by Japanese laser - I would not give it much weight, however.
The dyed goldens (I am going to refer to them as dyed) look quite a bit like the golden South Sea, but they do not hold a candle to the naturally colored freshwaters with a nice golden overtone. These often have a deep, beautiful orient. The colors of the strands are never really gold, however. More of a bronze-lavender. |