Show Us Your Pearls In Action!!!

jeg said:
Wow, so many pretty things to catch up on!!

Tiger, terrific Tahitians! Ugh, I sure hope they are able to resolve your AC issue soon!

BWeaves, those blues look great together! I have a short strand from PP that is similar to that, I think. Your earrings pair so nicely with them.

Ooo, CatMom, your green day is gorgeous!

Pearls&Pugs, what a fun combination you put together! I hope the weather held up for your BBQ.

Pomelo, nails to match your pearls? Perfect combo!

Coppery mauve strand from Kojima with earrings I made-
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Such a gorgeous coppery strand jeg and the earrings are fabulous with it!
 
Kasumi pearl and amethyst earrings from Kojima. Chinese ripples from Pacific Pearls. Believe it or not, these are even more colorful in person than they look in the photos.

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I am wearing the veggie tin cup, tahitian drop pendant, and tahitian threader earrings today but my picture kinda cropped them out.

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Apparently the veggies catch the eye of men because my husband, the spine doctor I saw this morning, and one of my male co-workers ALL not only noticed this necklace but told me how much they liked it. I've been married for 11 years to the husband and worked with that co-worker for 5.5 years and neither have ever mentioned anything about my jewelry. The doctor even mentioned reproducing it and selling on etsy.

My female co-workers also like it, but they frequently comment on my jewelry so I didn't find that as interesting 🤣
 
lary007: Your veggie tin-cup is very eye catching, and adorable. I keep wanting the yell, "But the pearls!!!!"

Douglas: When I first saw rippled pearls, I wasn't impressed. Then I saw a few more, and the color and luster and thick luster totally won me over.
 
BWeaves said:
lary007: Your veggie tin-cup is very eye catching, and adorable. I keep wanting the yell, "But the pearls!!!!"

Douglas: When I first saw rippled pearls, I wasn't impressed. Then I saw a few more, and the color and luster and thick luster totally won me over.
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Same thing with me!
The I purchased a few from Sarah (for my personal collection) and they "spoke to me", I heard a tale emanating from them (also counts that I met Kiyoshi at about the same time) and I SAW...maybe it was metaphysical, maybe just the effect of that intensely metallic and colorful nacre...but then I was in love with them.
 
BWeaves said:
No, the center drop is a regular cultured pearl with amazing ombre' color. The rest of the pearls in the necklace are keshi.
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Thanks. Never to assume, we ran across this tissue-nucleated Keshi from Indonesia in 2010 (shown on Hisano's desk at Ruckus that year, ready for enhancer). 17.5mm X 14mm X 11mm, 18 carats. Side forward is with dimples, back side is smooth and equally lustrous. Might want to make it two-sided some day. Very nice pearl that I'd appreciate Almudena wearing more frequently!
 

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SteveM said:
I watched with the idea of getting something basic for our first Kasumis in advance of Pearls by the Bay (my interest in pearls originates with naturals) and was fortunate to get the K2 pair below, for dangle earrings.
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We were allowed to keep just one of the pearls. Received today, set as a simple enhancer. Had to wait for the sun to go down, iPhone 15 is notorious for lens flare!
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SteveM said:
Thanks. Never to assume, we ran across this tissue-nucleated Keshi from Indonesia in 2010 (shown on Hisano's desk at Ruckus that year, ready for enhancer). 17.5mm X 14mm X 11mm, 18 carats. Side forward is with dimples, back side is smooth and equally lustrous. Might want to make it two-sided some day. Very nice pearl that I'd appreciate Almudena wearing more frequently!
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I guess I'm a little confused-- I thought that Keshi were non- nucleated; accidental pearls as a byproduct of the culturing process. For that pearl to be tissue nucleated, it means it was deliberately cultured?
 
2thdktr said:
I guess I'm a little confused-- I thought that Keshi were non- nucleated; accidental pearls as a byproduct of the culturing process. For that pearl to be tissue nucleated, it means it was deliberately cultured?
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The pearl is 100% nacre, non-beaded, as with Freshwater. When these things started appearing 15 years ago or so I guess no one knew what else to call them. But I've been away from pearls for a number of years. The pearl was offered and sold as a keshi with the 'nucleated' qualifier.

Can we get Jeremy to chime in on any updated regulations/terminology for saltwater tissue-nucleated pearls? Wouldn't we all agree that they are better existing than not?
 
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2thdktr said:
I guess I'm a little confused-- I thought that Keshi were non- nucleated; accidental pearls as a byproduct of the culturing process. For that pearl to be tissue nucleated, it means it was deliberately cultured?
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Keshi also refers to saltwater pearls that are without a bead nucleus because the oyster expelled the bead.

When the bead was implanted, a bit of mantle tissue was also implanted-- it is the mantle tissue that forms the pearl sac. If the bead is expelled the sac remains. The pearl farmer may X-ray the oyster, discover there is no bead, and re-implant the oyster with a new bead, but if not, a keshi results.

Here are my Tahitian keshi (I think you saw them when we got together a few years ago):
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My wife has a Cook Islands keshi bracelet made from pearls that formed in third-graft pearl sacs from a line lost in a hurricane and discovered eight years later. Those huge sacs completely filled with nacre.

Tissue nucleation (never beaded) became an issue at the time (circa 15+ years ago) as pearls from certain clever Indo-Pacific farmers were showing up at labs for natural certification. The deception was short-lived. But I assume the practice would have informed the trade of a method for reliable commercial keshi production.

That wouldn't take anything away from the beauty of the pearls, or their appeal to those who prefer all-nacre gems.
 
2thdktr said:
I guess I'm a little confused-- I thought that Keshi were non- nucleated; accidental pearls as a byproduct of the culturing process. For that pearl to be tissue nucleated, it means it was deliberately cultured?
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You are 100% right. That is the case: non-nucleated, but tissue "nucleated" (you need the mantle tissue to create the pearl sac). Usually not deliberately created: the oyster must have spat the bead out, but you can also just tissue nucleate an oyster! I did that many, many times.
 
CortezPearls said:
you can also just tissue nucleate an oyster! I did that many, many times.
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OK so back to regulations and terminology: Can a tissue-nucleated oyster pearl be called a keshi without qualification? I guess that would be in CIBJO's current definition but I don't have the latest document to reference. When I bought the gold pearl above the natural certification fraud was ongoing, thus the seller was especially diligent about their labelling.
 
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