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Dear Friends of the Freshwater Pearl: So, I combined freshwater pearls, Bangkok gems and silver and made pendants. Silver!! Yup (the price of gold climbed too high). Silver and pearls look wonderful together. Now comes the hard part: combatting silver tarnish without harming the pearls. Last...

Dear Friends of the freshwater pearl: OK. I'm exhausted, but my first set of 65 freshwater pearl designs are available for review. Please, please review them. I treasure your comments. I know this type of jewelry is hot in Europe, but I don't know about the U.S. I saw a lot of English-speaking...

Dear Friends of the Akoya: Check out the UTube video of the farm of Vietnam Pearl, the farm that I visited this summer in HaLong Bay. The camera shows the white sand beach. The owner of the sea concession wants to put a showroom, restaurant and beach umbrellas on that beach and sell direct to...

Dear Pearl Fans: Some of you have asked me to wholesale Akoyas to your enterprise (seeing as I am a pearl tourist and "visit" pearls- why can't I buy for you?). Hmmm. In the process of asking me to wholesale to you, you have demanded detailed information. Hmmm. I'm rather slow. I have to mull...

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I'm a hard-core pearl tourist. So when my Thai driver got me an unadvertised special Chiang Mai-Phuket from Thai Air, the Thai Baht just jumped from my wallet. I leave Tuesday for Phuket to visit two pearl farms, but I'm going with sinking feelings about the Phuket...

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I'm back in my comfortable home in Chiang Mai and very happy about my trip to Hanoi, Haiphong and Ha Long Bay. Vietnam Pearl was very kind to me. If it is true (as a Hanoi newspaper reporter informed us) that Vietnam is going to bury the remnents of socialism and...

Dear Friends ?f the Akoya: Re: buying pearls off a pearl r?ft in Ha Long Bay- all ưorkers are employees ?f a pearl company. Pun?shment for propẻrty th?ft in Asia is severe. Deal ưith the company, pl?ase-- and look out fỏr the ice-blue Akoyas. If you can find any. Ưhat a sủrprise! Beaut?ful.

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I am a hard-core pearl tourist, inclined to rush off to see a necklace anywhere in the world. When Terry and Jeremy began talking about Vietnamese Akoyas, I grabbed my credit card and booked a trip to Hanoi via Air Asia. Who have I been talking to for three days...

I bought two strands of huge pearls that looked like high luster iridescent chewing gum: you know, the lumpy wad of bubble gum you chewed for an hour that has your tooth marks all over it? They were white freshwater, hence not kheshi. So what were they? Rebirth pearls. What??? Rebirth. They are...

To continue talking about the color-graduated pink Akoya pearls that I saw on Mikimoto's island, the reason they were so so impressive was the stunning work in color graduation. Sure, the strand started out as very bright pink pearls in the middle, but the pink pearls faded in color very gently-...

To continue talking about the color-graduated pink Akoya pearls that I saw on Mikimoto's island, the reason they were so so impressive was the stunning work in color graduation. Sure, the strand started out as very bright pink pearls in the middle, but the pink pearls faded in color very gently-...

I made a pilgrimage to Mikimoto's Island and to his store in Toyko just to see the Pearls in Motion featured on Mikimoto's website. I am a true pearl tourist. Show me a beautiful strand and I start searching the internet for cheap flights. So I went to Japan. Oops. My enthusiasm wilted. However...

I just returned from the June Hong Kong Gem and Jewelry show with an armfull of AAA round freshwater pearls. They are so so beautiful. Some of the strands are equal to the Akoya strands I saw in you-know-who's showroom in Tokyo. However, even if freshwater pearls are gorgeous and the best deal...

I'm off to Hanoi, Haiphong and the bay of Han La to visit pearl production sites and pearl farms. Yes, I understand that the Vietnamese harvest in October through December. This is a "Just Looking" trip and not much of a buying trip. I saw the Vietnamese yellow pearls at the June Hong Kong...

Wow! Lots of changes in Zhuji City. A new hotel for starters. A new Pearl Market. Huge gate-guarded townhouse complexes. The one across from the new Pearl Market (next door to the old Pearl Market) sells for $220,000 dollars per 4 storey unit. The fact that the pearl merchants have that kind of...

I'm back from Zhuji- I really liked that green valley ringed by forested mountains. Fertile, irrigated, Zhuji was always a good place to be and now with pearl ponds and the Munsingware factories, it is even better. I was sent to the "famous" restaurant KFC and ate there with my driver. KFC was...

On page 67 of The Pearl Book by Antoinette Matlins, she states "there may be pearls with thick nacre that don't exhibit rich luster and orient because of how the layers crystallized" OK, got that. Then she continues: "there are no pearls with rich luster and orient that do not have well...

I'm flying HK-Hangzhou via China Eastern (non-stop). Has anyone flown that airline? I'm a little nervous. Their company refers to customers as "the masses" and they don't answer their Bangkok phone. The airport travel agency had to struggle two hours to get through to them. I didn't want to take...

A G.F. just stopped by to show off her Mikimoto "Pearls in Motion"- one billion looks with one necklace. I'm awestruck! I want one- but not from Mikimoto. How do they do that? I went to the website but couldn't figure it out. Anyone know? Can it be replicated? Suzanne in Thailand