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Pearly Whites, I love that style of necklace and earrings. Attempting to warp my loom slowly. Weaving is supposed to be good physical therapy. Wearing pearls and PJs while warping. Coral Atoll necklace and Bali earrings from Kamoka. Both the earrings and the necklace have large hooks...

Pearls and PJs!!!

I wear my most expensive pearls with my PJs because I want to enjoy them all the time! Announcing it here was my way of convincing people to NOT save their pearls for fancy dress. I wear them with jeans and T-shirts. I wear them with PJs. etc etc. I even wore pearls to get surgery today...

I resemble that remark! But in seriousness, the marks on the clasps are the marks of the manufacturer of the clasp. They are generic clasps that can be bought by any jeweler to add to their own designs, and are not the mark of the company or person who strung the pearls. The pearls look like...

I have the exact opposite feeling from MintyFresh. I think blue pearls go with everything. And they have a much more casual vibe, so she's more likely to wear them, and not save them for "best."

It looks like the Mikimoto logo. What's their return policy?

Wow, wow, wow. I'm out for a couple of days and look at all the gorgeous pearls I missed. Wow.

I agree, the dark pearls are dyed Chinese freshwater pearls. The dyed color is very unnatural compared to Tahitian pearls. And the dye tends to clump in certain areas. The luster is not right for undyed pearls or Tahitian pearls. The egg and potato shapes are typical of freshwater pearls...

I was going to joke that these are kosher, but I haven't seen a K in an oyster shell logo before. I agree about them being older akoya pearls from maybe the 1950s-60s. Enjoy. It's a beautiful necklace with a good clasp.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a square knot done over a core. I believe it might be called macrame if your finished product looks like an owl with a spider plant hanging in it.

I play with my pearls ALL THE TIME. They feel so good. Aren't pearls supposed to get MORE beautiful when you wear them next to your skin? I have yet to wear them out by fondling them. I always keep my hands clean when I touch them, and wipe them off with a soft cloth when I take them off...

TECS1990: Wow, Great ring. A size 6 sounds tiny to me, but I think UK sizes are different than US sizes. I just got this ring from OceanRhyme. A 9 mm akoya pearl and an opal doublet. It's quite on the petite side compared to my usual taste in rings. The opal has a lot of red fire in the...

It always takes me 3 tries to restring my pearls, because my hands forget the right tension to do the knots.

Nice double strand of akoyas with a nice clasp. No, it's not worth getting them appraised or x-rayed. But definitely give them a gentle wash to clean the gunk off and bright them up. I don't think they need restringing yet, unless you see pearls slipping up and down between the knots. The...

Fascinating! I'm a hand weaver, and that looks like a knotting technique to me. But from a distance, it definitely gives a crochet vibe. I find it interesting that there's a light thread running across the top of the pearls that holds everything in place, and then the pearls are threaded...