Show Us Your Pearls In Action!!!

[Mary-Contrary]

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! Today it’s my restrung vintage necklace, silver & topaz earrings and a silver & button pearl ring. I had to adjust the picture a bunch because I just can’t get a great picture, but it’s now a fair representation of what it actually looks like.

 

[eolian pearls]

Another beautiful week of pearls everyone! I love everything I see here

I will be visiting my parents for Christmas and plan to leave my Love strand with my Mom and my sister because I so rarely wear it here. Now I have a new reason to casually put it on at home everyday;-) I have shortened it by two pearls that were a bit too baroque and I love the new length! My SOC ring stays with me;-)

Wishing everyone a lovely Sunday!

 

[BWeaves]

Eolian Pearls, wow, I'd wear those every day. They're gorgeous.

 

[SurfnSci]

Gorgeous pearls, everyone, wow! I'm so happy to finally be able to catch up on all the posts this month

Eolian, so good to see you and your fantastic Love strand!

Kamoka strand I've been wearing daily for its autumn-y colors.

 

[Pomelo]

Freshwater pearls and jade, and emeralds, and sapphires, and one tourmaline. Necklace from Kojima Pearl. little h earrings from Hisano at Pearl Paradise.

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Gasp!!!!!!!
What extraordinary design!!!
I hope you don’t mind, I will unashamedly be stealing this pearl x tumbled gemstone idea. Love love love love love!

It reminds me of imperial court necklaces (chaozhu) in ancient China that come in variety of materials including pearls.

 

[BWeaves]

SurfnSci: I'm in such a multicolored Tahitian mood right now. I'm loving all the multicolored pearl necklaces. Yours is gorgeous, too.

Pomelo: I love those Chinese imperial court necklaces. I love the counter weight in the back to keep the weight off the back of your neck. I love the assymetric dangles in the front. And now I'm thinking about hanging a bracelet off the back of my orbit clasps. Hum.

 

[jeg]

I am loving all the pearly pics from everyone!!!

Wow, there were so many things from the PP/Takahashi Live events I would love to have. Unfortunately I was only able to tune in live for one day and everything sold sooooo fast! Hard to tell if any of you were able to get anything with names like polite nachos, cheesy burritos and such, but I hope to see some of the pearls here!

I was able to meet up with Mr. Seki at the Japan Pearl Fair a few weeks ago and chose some loose pearls at the Takahashi booth. I didn’t have a plan for these, and for now, just knotted it into a bubble strand. I will try to post some pics later but I haven’t been home when there has been decent daylight.

Two SS and Tahitian ombre necklaces from Kojima, with an ombre rope from Cees. I made the SS and Tahitian earrings but forgot to include them in the pearl pics.

 

[BWeaves]

Gorgeous choices from the Takashi stall at the Japan pearl fair! And I'm a sucker for a good pearl ombre'!

 

[BWeaves]

Two real Kasumi pendants from the only pearl farm on Lake Kasumi-Ga in Japan. I wear them on earring hoops. One large freshwater pearl from China. These pearls are erotochromatic. All from Kojima Pearl.

These pearls change color as you move them around, so you've got to see them in motion.

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[BWeaves]

Time to restring the first pearl necklace I ever bought. Japanese akoya pearls bought in 1982, so they're probably 45 years old. This is not their first restringing, but I can see the thread has stretched between the old knots. Most of the pearls still have amazing luster, although watching the video, I see a chalky one I should have been removed. Lots and lots of overhand knots. The necklace is 32 inches long, and the pearls are 5.5 mm. I wore this necklace everyday for decades, as it was only one of two pearl necklaces I owned. The other was a 7 mm choker from my grandmother.

A word about the clasp. It's a base metal clasp with yellow gold plating and white rhodium plating, and CZs. It's never tarnished, and it's very sparkly. I originally had a similar looking ball clasp in real gold and diamonds, but the diamonds were minuscule and very grey. They didn't sparkle. Meanwhile, this "fake" clasp looks amazing. Never judge as strand of pearls by the price of the clasp.

Finished. The knots should be good for another 5 years, since I don't wear it every day now.

Video of the pearls, and my knotting in motion on Instagram.

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[BWeaves]

Nana (my Mom's mom) never bought high quality jewelry. Her pearls have thin nacre. You can see the chalky surface, the low luster, and the surface flaws in the Instagram video. Granted, she wore these every day, and after she died, I wore them every day, so you might think the nacre has worn off. Well some of it might have worn off. But I also have pearls that my Mom bought in 1959, and pearls that I bought in 1982 (see previous post), that are still very lustrous, and still look like they have thick nacre. Nana's pearls started out with thin nacre. ALWAYS GO FOR THE LUSTER!

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I was thinking of restringing Nana's pearls, but after taking another look at them, and I think not.

I took Nana's diamond and pearl clasp, and had PP replace the necklace strand with Freshadamas, and I still think of it as Nana's necklace because at least the clasp is the same. It reminds me of the joke about the person who owned George Washington's axe, that he used to chop down the cherry tree. The handle had to be replaced 3 times, and the axe head 2 times, because they broke or wore out, but it's the same axe.