John Tu's Pearls

[pattye]

Julie,

Hope so! I want to keep expanding the DIY section--------thanks for asking!

Blaire,

Bet those pearls have great overtones, too!

[pattye]

Well, here we go again---gem show this weekend, and John had some of his very special new purchases with him and allowed me to take photos---unfortunately, none of these went home with me----------- Looks like the tags sez 12-14mm, and that would be perpendicular to the drill hole, longer than that in length.

first, really lovely bead nucleated, sorry I didn't have a mm gauge with me----------and my quick shots don't do the pearls justice at all--------



As we have noted before, very Kasumi-like pearls----------

[pattye]

Some amazing huge flat keshi type, gorgeous colors, think he had 3 strands of these-----------

[pattye]

And the amazing strand John Tu hand picked each pearl for, it is extra long--the most Amazing colors, truly some of the most unusual and well matched and huge pearls I will ever see the likes of, I am sure -------------unbelievable purple to green-gold overtones and more! (These are bead nucleated, of course.)

A couple of the pearls were strung wrong side front, the back side of these pearls, shown in the last photo is more lavender silver, very consistent.







Oh how I wish these were in my budget!!!!!!

More pics of my purchases in a few------------------

[GemGeek]

Mmmmm, those photos look pretty darn fine to me. Those keshi look like pondslime heaven!

[GemGeek]

Oops, sorry I jumped in there. I thought you were done and I got so excited. Wow, those fireballs are enormous!

[pattye]

Hi Blaire,

John said you might have seen some of these briefly at Tucson-------

Most of my purchases were basics--ovals, keshi, but saw these huge pendant pearls, pics 2 & 3 (the large one is 2 inches long!) and I just had to have a couple----also some predrilled large drops with circles.








I retook these of the large keshi in the light box--





That's it for now!

[GemGeek]

Those are gorgeous!

[pattye]

Thanks Blaire, I did leave lots for you!

[Pearly Shell]

Very fun! Wish he would show at Intergem.

[judimcc6]

How much was he charging for the Kasumi-like pearls? Where were they from? They do look so much like Sarah's pearls.

[pattye]

Hi Judi, I sent you a pm--I'm sure those Kasumi type were from China.

Donna, John does sometimes do Intergem, in fact, this weekend was both Intergem and Gen Faire (just outside Portland) and he had a booth at each place!

[SheB]

As we have noted before, very Kasumi-like pearls----------

Oh my goodness!!! Those are stunning....... *drool*

[barbie biggs]

Thanks so much Pattye. I particularly like the CFW keishi that looks like a manta ray.

Did you get any of those amazing drops?

barbie

[pattye]

Hi Barbie,

Yes, I did buy that lovely pile of circled drops! They were all drilled through, just perfect for me and my beading style!