Culture Pearls Are More Popular Now

Submitted by: genwright

Pearl history began over 6,000 years ago, at that time pearls is original product in east,and most of the pearls are nature , so people call it "orient pearl".the pearl are come to europe by the Cruciata, and then pearls are popular in europe for a long time are known as "pearl era".today pearl is cultured all over the world such as Europe, North America and Asia. but china is thought to the original place of the pearl culturing especially freshwater culture pearl.china have began culture pearls in 13th century,and then Japanese promoted the culture pearls technology, and a Japanese company Mikimoto opened the door to a greatly expanded pearl industry ,and then the cultured pearl industry has now far surpassed that of the natural pearl industry.Nowadays, Japan and China are major global suppliers of cultured pearls. In fact,it is approximately 96% of pearls sold everywhere in the world are come from China, Even most pearls sold as Japanese were actually Chinese cultured pearls.

There are two kind of culture pearls,culture freshwater pearl and culture saltwater culture pearls,the culture technology of the culture freshwater pearl and culture saltwater pearls are absolute different.they are use different oyster and different beads to inserted,and culture . Normally the saltwater mollusks are universally bead nucleated,but the great majority of freshwater pearl are not bead-nucleated ,usually it is use a tiny tissue mantle inserted into the mussel to promote pearl growth.so the Saltwater cultured pearls tend to be more round than freshwater cultured pearls.

The value of pearls depend on the luster, surface ,size and nacer. some culture pearls become the most popular culture pearls because of their perfect luster,and smooth surface.

Tahitian Pearls are culture beyond French Polynesia to the west into the Micronesian Islandsare, consider as The Most Beautiful culture pearl In the world.the Tahitian pearls are cultured use the black-lipped oyster 'Pinctada margaritifera', This oyster itself is quite large - sometimes over 12 inches across and weighing as much as 10 pounds , the Tahitian pearls product by this oyster are often results in much larger than any other pearls,and the Tahitian pearls color are natural dark colors along with the peacock green tone are extremely rare in the world,there result make the Tahitian price is more higher than any other culture pearls.

South Sea Pearls are popular by his large size and unique, satiny luster.the average size of a South Sea pearl is 13 mm,the range of the south sea pearls are between from 9 mm to 20 mm.the warm waters of the South Seas is very good for the oyster to grows,then the nacre of south sea pearls are unusually thick than the nacre of the akoya pearl.