Pearls, Silver, Rice Shape, Small 3x2mm on 16-inch Strands
SKU: JSD-174
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Description
- Silver mini rice shape pearls 3x2mm on 16-inch strands
- Uniform shape with subtle silvery sheen
- Like bronze pearls, silver color pearls can be used instead of metals to give a warm or cool shimmer to your jewelry designs. This can inspire color palettes and design possibilities you might not have thought of.
- 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. Subtle colors like silver are caused by mineral in the water. Darker colors can by dyed or irradiated.
- 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.