General Information about PEARL that you should know

If talked about jewelry, I'm surly that peal is one of the first jewel that many people love it. Pearl is the most popular jewel and it is the only one jewel that occur from the creature.

Pearl can divided to 2 kinds are saltwater pearl and freshwater pearl. They are sometime look quite similar but come from different sources. The saltwater pearl grow within pearl oyster which live in ocean. They are usually cultivated in protected lagoon. While natural freshwater cultured pearl grow within many species of freshwater mussels which live in lake, pond, and river. These pearl also occur in hotter and colder climates more temperate areas. Many countries are export the freshwater pearl, nonetheless the most of freshwater cultured pearls which sold today come from China.

Many people think that the real pearl have to be round shape only and others shape are artificial pearl. In fact, there is one kind of pearl that is irregular shape called "Baroque Pearl". Cultured freshwater pearls are most commonly baroque, because freshwater pearls are mantle-tissue nucleated instead of bead nucleated. Thus the baroque pearl is rarely perfectly rounded and can appear in oval shape. The most of artificial pearl is make from plastic, glass, or resin that sometime look similar the real pearl. However there are many way to proved it such as "The Tooth Test" by rub the surface of the pearl over the teeth. If it is the real pearl, a gritty or bumpy feeling against the teeth. On the other hand, if it is the artificial pearl, would feel smooth against the teeth. By the way some article says the tooth test is not reliable. The other one easily way to check the pearl is "Sun Test", by taking the pearl out into the sun or holding it under very bright indoor lighting. The real pearl won't be perfectly matched under the sun or variations in their orient and color, conversely the artificial pearl is perfectly matched for color and overtone.

Commonly we can find just the white pearl, pink pearl, and black pearl in the shop or market, but actually there are many colors of pearl such as blue, champagne, green, purple, and other tints colors. The reason that these colors of pearls are rarely to find is they can be found only from the ocean. So it may take years to collect them enough for make just one necklace or jewelry.

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http://www.mbase.com.au/Products/CL4languageanddatabase/tabid/282/Default.aspx

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Coconut Shell with Handmade Jewelry

As we told that besides the stone, shell, and natural seed, we also use wood and coconut shell for make handmade jewelry. And this blog we will tell about coconut shell with handmade jewelry.

Someone are doubt that the skin of coconut is green, but why the coconut shell is brown. The brown shell is the third shell of coconut. The coconut has 3 layers of shell, Outermost layer is the green skin, second is coir fibers, and third layer is coconut shell that used for make various crafts products, including jewelry. Before using coconut shell to make jewelry, have to brought all the coir fibers out from the shell, then polished for beautiful.

Coconut shell is not only used to be pendant for necklace or earring, it also cut and make the shape to be bead for decorated on the jewelry. The attractiveness of coconut shell is the natural light brown or light yellow stripe on the brown skin. The other one thing is the coconut shell is light weight but shining and looks costly.

Somebody may thinks that the coconut shell is useless, but for the manufacturer like us we can bring the useless thing to put the value on it by our hand. Also the coconut shell despite its cost is very cheap, we can put the idea to add valuable on it. Each of product are passed the creativity and sensibility of hand making, that's why the consumer prefer the handmade products.

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http://www.preparednesspro.com/blog/coconut-oil-fact-and-fiction/

http://tryingtogetby.com/2009/08/make-your-own-bonsai-pot-making-cheap-bonsai-pots-with-found-objects-use-household-objects-for-bonsai-pots/

Seashell with Fashion Jewelry

Almost haft of our handmade jewelry's design is use seashell to decorated, so it contain many kind of seashell for designing the different style of jewelry. The seashell that we use has more than 10 kinds such as Abalone, Paua, Nautilus, scallop, cowrie, and etc. Each of shell has their own identity, so it make the jewelry looks attractive.

Many years ago, the seashell jewelry was very popular. The most one popular design is the big shell pendant with necklace in which we proud to say that we was one of the first designer and manufacturer who design and made this. When the time goes by, the fashion is changed and also the big seashell pendant is not very popular like before. So we have to create the new design for new trends all the time. But it not means the seashell jewelry is not received the attention, it still popular in some place. For example in France, Shiva Eye shell is the most popular one for handmade jewelry. Also the beach area in many country if compare between seashell jewelry and others jewelry, the seashell jewelry is more popular than others.


In each area, the popular shells are different but the most popular are Shiva Eye shell and Paua shell. The prominent point of Shiva Eye shell is the natural spiral shape on the white shell and dark green mix with orange and gray on back of shell. And the prominent point of Paua shell is the interior layer of shell is like the rainbow color (also called iridescent) swirl of intense green, blue, purple, and sometimes pink colors.

Even though today's trends are not seashell jewelry, but the designer and manufacturer like us can apply the seashell jewelry follow the trends. So this is the reason that why seashell still appear with the fashion jewelry.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shells01.jpg

http://www.shore-line.co.uk/about_paua.php

http://www.branchearth.com/islanddudeshiva.html

Type of stone that we use for handmade jewelry

Besides the natural seed that we use for make handmade jewelry, we also use the gemstone, seashell, pearl, and wood.

The gemstones that we use are natural stone and synthetic stone (fake stone). The reasons that we use some synthetic stone are price, suitability with jewelry, and popularity. Like turquoise, most of turquoises on jewelry are synthetic because the real turquoise is expensive and the color of stone can become pale if it's kept in wrong way. So for using this stone on jewelry, the synthetic is more suitable, colorful, and popular than the real one. And some stone such as red coral stone is controlled to trade, so we have to use the synthetic stone.

The synthetic stone is made from the powder of stone and resin, but some are use sand or crushed shell with resin. Then added the color to the stone as the real stone such as red for coral stone or blue and green for turquoise.

It just some stone that we use the synthetic for the handmade jewelry. Even though the real gemstone is rather expensive, almost that we use for our handmade jewelry are real e.g. malachite, amethyst, onyx, lapis lazuli, and etc.

Seed that we make handmade jewelry (Part 2)

Last time that we told about seed that we use to make handmade jewelry, it's not all. This time we'll continue about others seeds which also popular for use to make the handmade jewelry.

The Castor Seed or "Med La Hoong" in Thai name has the dominant characteristic  with the pattern like the snake skin on the seed. When castor is decorated with the jewelry, it make the jewelry looks attractiveness.

Castor Seed

The white color seed that we always use for our handmade jewelry is "Look Deuy" or Job's tear seed. Because of its white color, we often use with red color or black color seed for jewelry. The colors of Job's tear seed is not always white, some seed are gray and some seed are light brown or light yellow.

Job's Tear Seed

The others one white color seed that we use for handmade jewelry is "Tua Kaow", also know as white bean, pea bean, or haricot. Nomally, white bean is used for cooking with pies or soups but it also apply for making jewelry. The color of white bean is not very white, but it rather off-white or cream color. Because of the size of white bean is not small like job's tear seed, it is not used for jewelry often.

White Bean

One more big seed that we use is Rubber Seed or "Look Yang", is the seed of rubber tree that's grown in the south of Thailand. The size of rubber seed is rather big, approximatly diameter is 2 cm. The rubber seed has the skin like the castor seed but more brown.

Rubber Seed

Actually the seed that we use for handmade jewelry are numorous, but we just choose the most popular seed from our jewelry. If you interset in natural seed jewelry, let's check our website - www.naturalhandmadejewelry.com