Pearls, Pink, Side-Drilled Buttons, 4x4mm on 16-inch Strand
SKU: GMA-252
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Description
- Small light pink pearls with good luster 4x4mm on 16-inch strand
- If these small pink pearls had been drilled the other way they would have been called button pearls b/c they are flat one one side and slightly domed on the other
- These however are drilled through the thinner dimension giving them a shape closer to a very small coin domed on one side.
- Pearls are formed inside bivalves (similar to oysters), which coat any foreign substance that gets inside their shell with a smooth layer of pearly nacre to eliminate the irritation. This coating grows over time increasing the pearl's luster and size. The color is influenced by minerals in the water.
- The Chinese cultured some pearls in the 12th or 13th century, but the Japanese developed it into an industry in the 1890s, inserting mother-of-pearl beads as the basis of their cultured pearls.