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

http://villacoragems.com/whitebaroquepearlnecklace.aspx

http://applesofgold.com/jewelryblog/tag/south-sea-pearl-necklace/

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/