Silver mini rice shape pearls 3x2mm on 16-inch strands
Uniform shape and subtle silver sheen
Like bronze pearls, silver color pearls can be used instead of metal to give a warm or cool shimmer to your jewelry designs
I like to forget that bronze pearls are pearls and just use them for their color, luster, shape etc. this opens up a lot of possibilities that you might not think 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.
The Chinese cultured in the 12thor 13thcentury, but the Japanese developed it into an industry in the 1890s, inserting mother-of-pearl beads as the basis of their cultured Pearls.
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