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Discover what
kind and how Freshwater Pearls are produced by Pearl Farms.
Be
it a pearl necklace, a pearl  bracelet, a pair
of pearl earrings, or a pearl ring, any kind of pearl jewelry that is made in
fresh water such as lakes, rivers etc. are called freshwater pearl jewelry. We
own freshwater pearl farms in the Philippines, where the best quality freshwater
pearls are produced and sold worldwide. We have any
size, any shape from coin pearls to biwa pearls to keshi, cornflake,
teardrop, rice or baroque pearls..
We can process and culture specific
color. It will only take us 8 weeks. What are freshwater and salt water
pearls?Freshwater pearls are from freshwater
while saltwater pearls are from saltwater. The process of natural freshwater pearls
occurring is pretty much the same as that of saltwater pearls, except ones occur
in mussels and the other in oysters.  The catalyst inserted to the oyster
is just a very tiny piece of another oyster's mantle tissue instead of shell beads.
This foreign material would be entered into a mussel, and to reduce and resist
the irritation, the mollusk coats the intruder with the same secretion it uses
for shell-building, nacre. Freshwater pearls are totally different
from any of other gemstones. They are similar to saltwater pearls in terms of
both of them are made of nature, but difference occurs as freshwater pearls are
almost seedless, quite similar to the wild natural pearl. A variety of factors
determine shapes and quality of pearls such as the raising of infant oyster, the
health of oyster itself, ingredients in the water, water temperature, the inserting
skill of workers, fertilization, diseases  prevention, etc.
How freshwater pearls
are cultured? To culture freshwater pearls,
workers would slightly open mussels shells, cut small slits into the mantle tissue
inside both shells, and insert small pieces of live mantle tissue from another
mussel into those slits. In freshwater mussels that insertion alone is sufficient
to start nacre production. Pearls are composed entirely
of nacre, just like their natural freshwater and natural saltwater counterparts. Today,one
of the best and largest selection of pearls are from Noubikko collection, because
modern technology and cutting edge techniques have been used for processing pearls
in cleaning and drilling to ensure the best quality of transparence and luster
of pearls. All done by hand. Freshwater
cultured pearls and natural pearls The least expensive
cultured pearl product in the market today "rivals the quality of the
most expensive natural pearls ever found."  The
shapes, luster, and colors often match the best natural pearl quality. Sometime
even surpass it. Certainly the new orange and peach-colored pearls are unique.
Some experts sent the resulting freshwater pearls to a gem lab and
received a report identifying them as "naturals." "If
pearl farmers can grow cultured pearls that test as naturals, then our fresh water
pearl customers are getting the big bonus." | 
