Pearls, Champagne, Rice Shape 6x5mm on 16-inch Strands
SKU: GMA-235
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Description
- Very light bronze, often called "champagne" color, pearls in small rice shape 6x5mm on 16-inch strands. Light colors like this are usually the result of minerals in the water where the pearl grew.
- Most gems are stones, but a few like Pearl, Amber, Jet, and Coral, are classified as Organic gems, meaning they came from living things.
- 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 reduce the irritation. This eventually grows to become a pearl.
- The Chinese cultured 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.