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So sorry, Pearlescence, I have tried to look at your blog through your own website, it don't work too. My antivirus (Kapersky) says that it's a malware page. Maybe something wrong is staying in your link?

Pearlescence, I am sad I can't open your blog, my antivirus stops it... I don't know why.

That's a pure poetry...

"Am I correct in assuming that big pearls often have rather poor luster since the Nacre deposit is not as compact as with younger oysters?" In fact, great size pearls can be "young" themself, with only thin nacre around a very big bead. Water temperature, at time of harvest, also influences the...

What you are explaining to us is called a great passion! And then, you have the taste to reflect this passion. Your story about pearl in your pocket reminds me my own habit to keep a little polished peeble in mine, it makes me smile, so much than to look at your pearls, truly amazing!

Well done assembling, Lilliefuzzysocks! This beautiful rainbow effect seems specific of mabe, pearls themself don't combine so much tones?

Marvels' nature and so nice jewels... I wonder how thick is nacre of these mabe?

An amazing pearl! Congratulations!

Nice! Tahitian pastels tones like your pearls are a treasure.

Anyway, that's a truly contemporary necklace design, very startling!

Surrealist picture!

Yes, GemGeek, FWP are harder to carve than saltwater pearls (I can't tell that about akoya's, I have never tried to carve one). It's looking like FWP nacre contains less quantity of conchyoline, a soft material. I also think that because when you move together several thick nacre FWP in your...

Just I must add that FWP nacre is harder than saltwater pearls like south sea or tahitian. I don't know why, but there's a great difference, maybe the size of aragonite crystals?

I wonder if is there not always necessary to include a little piece of tissue against the bead, that to induce pearl response, producing nacre first on the tissue, next moving along the bead until to fully cover it?

Hi judimcc6, I have remembered that you want to go to visit Civa in April: I must prevent you that their email has been changed. Now it's fijipearls@outlook.com. I would so much like to make a tour there, myself, but Fiji islands are exactly on opposite meridien from France... So far!

The quality of light is so important to see colours! It would be interesting to know how pearls colours are changing under more or less UV quantity in the light. We don't see UV ourself, these waves don't spread like others, but fluorescence effects make often colours varying among them without...

Sorry, sure I have not well understood the topic of this conversation... Are there really pearls shipped in wax?!:confused:

I have had good experiences with Wen and Kong, and less good too. The most problem is this usual saturating of the photos, which don't show real colour of the pearl. Pearls shown by front and back would be better, also, specially for baroques. It's true that Wen makes effort if requested.

I have found kinds of metal hair pins as beads of "keshi" pearls, hard gravels in baroque pearls... We'll even discover a shoe, soon:p

That would do the way of a pretty movie:)!