Pearls, Peacock, Dancers 9x8mm on 16-inch Strand
SKU: JSD-182
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$45.00
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Description
- Peacock dancer pearls 9x8mm on 16-inch strand
- Smooth, uniform and glowing the range of peacock colors from blue to gold
- From the collection of the Joyce Diamanti, bead collector, researcher, writer and educator
- Only one available
- 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.
- 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.