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@BWeaves this is the best thing I’ve read in a long time! Thank you for meticulously documenting everything, and also for your incredible sense of humour. I chuckled so much along the way. I also love your new blue baroque akoya ring - hope to see more of it on the Show Me thread!

Here are my soufflé Tahitians (+ 3 WSS) x silver chain half-half necklace. Hand picked these T’s from General Pearl in Tokyo when I was there last year (and WSS left over from shortening a strand of SS).

@jeg your blues are so gorgeous and special! Wore my strand of tiny drop T’s today. The overtones on them aren’t strong (they’re green) so they look uniformly grey here. They’re 7.3-7.8mm if I remember correctly!

Lovely! And ooh does the GSS have a story behind it?

Yesss there’s something about dark pearls set in WG - very alluring and mysterious! Wore my SS silver/blue boulders today. They are the strand that took me many, many attempts to find as I wanted the pearls to be boulder-like in shape rather than round, circle, drop shaped or with tails.

Fascinating stuff, thank you!

Enjoying how my lustrous baroque akoya on blue string elevates a casual outfit. Pearls from Flower Jem on instagram, and I collected them from him in person when I visited Japan.

This was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing. Like @jeg , I found the sorting machine really interesting! One comment you made was that the sorting machine is specifically designed for the Chinese market - just wondering why its standards wouldn’t be applicable to a more global market...

Buongiorno- Thread 'Japan trip - Pearls edition' https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/japan-trip-pearls-edition.462578/

Your ombré strands never cease to make me smile @jeg , especially with the placement of a single large / baroque pearl - it’s beautiful! And sorry to hear about Traveling Bunny, glad to see you’ve made a new friend to take with you on your adventures 💛

Beautiful T’s and are they a pair of Paloma Picasso squiggle earrings I spy? 😍 Gorgeous harvest strand! Love the colours and mix of shapes!

Ah that makes sense, thanks for the clarification

Bubbles bubbles bubbles! I would love a bubbly strand one day! The vintage akoya look like champagne akoya - out of interest, is there a noticeable difference between what’s vintage vs newly-produced champagne?

After posting about my big stud journey (haha thanks @BWeaves for the chuckle), I decided to wear them with my ombré soufflé T and WSS bracelet + silver bracelet = necklace combination. The T stud is not round and you can kinda tell from the side profile shot, but I’m not prepared to spend $$$...

Wow your blue Takahashi akoyas are an impressive size @jeg ! @PearlyLibrarian your ear stack looks great! I personally wouldn’t go smaller and completely agree that PSS is a thing. Maybe because I don’t wear pearl studs on a daily basis (I’m too lazy to take off earrings when I exercise or...

To go with my blue stripy shirt, I paired my blue baroque akoya bracelet linked with a chunky silver bracelet, worn as a necklace. I really like how the silver links give an edge to pearls!

This Sea Glass strand is exquisite! Out of interest, why is it called Sea Glass? I don’t think I’ve ever seen such soap bubble-y Tahitians before! To have so many different pastel overtones (pink, green, blue, champagne) in a strand is amazing! I’ve seen soap bubble-y akoya but not T’s, and...

Definitely go for it! I have a chunky silver bracelet that I bought especially to wear as the “other half” of a pearl necklace - the best thing is that it works with all my pearl bracelets (I have three - ombré Tahitian, bubble Tahitian and blue baroque akoya), but my favourite is the ombré...

Over the holiday period, I discovered a new favourite way to wear pearls: as a belt! I connected a strand of drop shaped akoya (7-8mm) with a strand of Tahitians to form the pearl belt and highlight the baby bump :)

RE: black knots - I didn't actually pay attention to this so I'm not sure! But I bought unfinished strands (I don't know the correct terminology for this - basically a string of pearls with no knotting and no clasp) and had my Tahitians strung with black knots when I got back to China. And the...