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Dear PG friends, With heavy heart but with encouragement from the very senior members of P-G and Pearl Community as whole, I am writing this post. I want to tell my experience and warn you against dealing with one well known individual some of us may have dealt with before or dealing with now...

Hello Pearl People, my favorite crowd! First is my question. I know everybody likes Beaders Secret and I do too! Thanks to Pattye I have it and love it! But for my first ever stringing projects I chose to use Japanese GPT thread from Gunze brand. I know Sarah from Kojima uses it for ages and my...

My sister came to visit this weekend and we had some girly fun - manicure/pedicure, kitchen faucet changing, AND trying on and taking pictures of my pearls. Truth to be told kitchen faucet changing was not much fun and we ended up asking for guy's help and with pearls, my sis tried them on and I...

I have a question, that've been struggling with for some time... We all familiar with dishonest people on eBay and other web platforms, trying to sell us FWP as anything but. They are (usually) in a faraway country with no way to appeal or apply law to punish them for a fraud. But what if this...

Dear All, I am still in search of my first Hanadama or, rather in the gathering info stage of my search. Per my understanding, Hanadama has a range of quality under its umbrella. I see names like "top range", ten-nyo, etc. and they are a bit confusing. Does it depend on nacre thickness? For...

Merry Christmas Morning everybody! An acquaintance is offering me some of her pearls. She is a vintage jewelry enthusiast but not particularly knowledgeable in pearls. She told me these are "corn" Japanese freshwater for the 60-80s. Very white and 4mm. I was wondering if that is so...

Hi Dear All, I am a newb, but a fast learner and a curious one :) I am trying to find a strand of the higher quality but having a hard time to find anything longer than 18". I guess it is just a standard length that stands are created at, giving its popularity and difficulty of matching. But I...