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In one oyster, there exist pearls with different sizes, although they are nucleated at the same time. Now people try to insert fewer issues than before to produce large and good pearls.

Hi olmander, Pearls from some areas are more transparent. Pearls from one area have more pearls with strongest luster (devilish luster), but the percentage is still very very small. People told me that probably the water in that area contains rare metal elements. It is still unclear. In one...

Hi Inge, the lavenders in picture are darker than real pearls, and the color on my screen seems to be also different from direction. The background should be white. Here are two picuters made under natural daylight in the afternoon.

Here are some pearls with excellent quality. I have discussed with my partner for almost one year. This time, they have a lot of pearls, especially pearls from an area, where some pearls have strongest luster (devil luster). So we select the pearls with strongest luster and round form from the...

Hi Inge, the pearl farmer do not culture the small pearls intentionally. It is not economical. Generally in an oyster, there exist 15-40 pearls. Some are small. The local government begin to realize the importance of protecting the water. So they prohibit pearl farming in the lakes, whose water...

Ja. The pearls in the second photo were formed in the pearl sac after a bar pearl was removed. The pearls in the first photo were formed in the pearl sac after a coin pearl was removed.

I have made a china trip and gotten a lot of pearls. I need some time to sort them. here are some large Keshi: The following Keshi have a size (12-13 x 22-30 mm).Sometimes I think that they may be not. But my partner tell me that they are Keshi.

Generally, Oyster can purify the water. One oyster can filter ca. 30-40(?) liters of water per day. The pollution is introduced by the farming method. People in China begin to realize that it is very important to protect the air and water. I am glad to see the development in the last two years...

I was in China for two weeks. During this trip, I had visited some pearl farmers and factories. Here is some info about pearl market. The price for the small pearls has been increased since the begining of this year and for the middle and large pearls decreased. Some provinces have prohibited...

Some farmers in China are trying to use similar methods used in SSP. I have asked one bead manufacture why he does not use the shells of saltwater oysters. They told me that those beads are not densely enough and easily to be broken up. Josh, Is the shell of saltwater oysters not solid?

Which pearls do you like, but do not like to work with them? Here are some such pearls. They are fascinating, but it is tedious to find, process, drill and knot them. The pearls have about 2.0 mm of diameter. Their size is about 1.5-1.7mm.

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Hi Caitlin, Thank you for encouragement. I am not diligent to finish the homepage. Jun

I add some not round pearls here. Here are some keshi, which are about 13-13,5mm and the luster is super. Here are also keshi. but they are drilled in different way. Here are some large barock pearls (coin+somethings) (ca.20-21 mm). Their luster is also very good.

The standard method used by pearl providers is as follows: One uses a sieve to sort the pearls. If one has some kilograms of pearls with the size from 7 to 10 mm. He uses a sieve with holes of a diameter of 7.5 mm at first. All pearls which are smaller than 7.5 pass the net. So he gets the...

All Pearls in the pictures are normal CFP. In the first and second pictures, the pearls will be used for earrings. So the quality must be very good. All pearls here have a natural color. We have more than hundred pairs of large drop form pearls for the fair (with size of ca. 11x(14-15 mm). Most...

It seems that the bead is a pearl for me and sometimes processed, but I am also not sure. The factory told me that the pearls are bead-nucleated. But they probably decided according to the surface and luster. Any way, they are normal small cheap pearls. The large bead-nucleated pearls have no...

Here are some pictures for the large pearls: Some necklaces with multicolors (size: 10,6-11,6mm). Some white necklaces with super quality(size: 10,6-11,6mm). Some large necklaces with a diameter of 12,-14,5mm.

I was in Inhorgenta in the last week, which is the second largest professional fair in Europe and is only for business customers. About one third of customers are from other EU countries. Here are some pearls for the fair. The largest drop form pearl in the picture is about 14.8x18,5mm. The...

I was in Inhorgenta and then I had forgotten the password(:confused:), so I have delayed to reply the above message. Jeremy, you are right that the circled material is bead and arrow shows the outlayer. I have checked it again and think that the bead is probably also a pearl as you, which has...