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Pearl Jewelry - The Story of Pearl Hunters

Posted by whoyg2587 on Monday, November 15, 2010 4:01:03 AM
As long as pearl jewelry have been known to people, they have been a highly sought commodity for their beauty. It's only in recent times however that the industry has taken the hunt for the perfect pearl to a whole different level. Today, the shiny orbs that we see on in display in jewelry stores have actually almost always been grown in farms.

That's a far cry from the dangerous extraction and collection methods used before the invention of modern technology. In the past, not more than 100 years ago, the only way to retrieve pearls was by diving in lakes, floods and the ocean to pick them up, one at the time. The unfortunate divers who'se job it was to do this, were often poor and lured by the relative large sums they could get. The diver would sometimes have to dive as deep as 100 feet on one single breath of air. In order to preserve air and to stay submerged the longest, the divers would hold on to heavy stones on the way down.

Naturally, this dangerous activity was reserved for the desperate or the powerless - in many cases slaves or extremely poor peasents. Today, this method is all but obsolete in most places of the world. The cheaper cultured pearls have become popular and are many times the only pearls available to the consumer.

There are however still a few isolated areas that practice this old art of pearl diving. Some of the finest natural pearl speciments come from the gulf of Bahrain. Here, divers still risk their health to retrieve what are considered the top of the crop in the world. In fact, Bahrain wants no part of the sale of cultured pearls, banned from trade. Bahrain is one of the few places on earth that does an active job in trying to preserve the natural habitat and waters from pollution.

It's an interesting story and one that continues to fascinate buyers around the world. Somehow, the beauty of the pearl grows when it's been retrieved from the depth of the ocean.
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Buying Pearl Jewelry Without Being Ripped Off

Posted by whoyg2587 on Monday, November 15, 2010 3:59:46 AM
Buying pearl jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. Whether you're considering a gift of pearl jewelry for someone special or as a treat for yourself, take some time to learn the terms used in the industry. Here's some information to help you get the best quality pearl jewelry for your money, whether you're shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store or online.

Pearls

Natural or real pearls are made by oysters and other mollusks. Cultured pearls also are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention; that is, an irritant introduced into the shells causes a pearl to grow. Imitation pearls are man-made with glass, plastic, or organic materials.

Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are either cultured or imitation pearls. Cultured pearls, because they are made by oysters or mollusks, usually are more expensive than imitation pears. A cultured pearl's value is largely based on its size, usually stated in millimeters, and the quality of its nacre coating, which give it luster. Jewelers should tell your if the pearls are cultured or imitation. Some black, bronze, gold, purple, blue and orange pearls, whether natural or cultured, occur that way in nature; some, however, are dyed through various processes. Jewelers should tell you whether the colored pearls are naturally colored, dyed or irradiated.

Clams, oysters, mussels and many other mollusks with limy shells are known to produce pearls. But very few kinds yield gem pearls of jeweler's quality. The pearl is an abnormal growth of mother-of-pearl, or nacre, imbedded in the soft bodies of these shellfish. It is built up, layer upon layer, in the same way as nacre is added to the lining of the growing shell and always has the same color and luster. For example, over the country, hundreds of good-sized pearls are found each year in the oysters we eat. Unfortunately these have no commercial value regardless of whether they have been cooked or not because they are dull opaque white or purple like the shell of the parent oyster. In recent times almost all pearls of gem quality come from the oriental pearl oyster which has a bright shimmering translucent nacre.

A pearl starts growing when some irritating foreign substance such as a sand grain, bit of mud, parasite or other object becomes lodged in the shell-producing gland called the mantle. Pearls formed in the soft flesh where nacre can be added on all sides are most likely to be spherical and the most highly prized. By far the great majority are flattened or variously distorted and have little value. Size, color, luster and freedom from flaws are other essential qualities. Unlike other gems, such as diamonds, pearls have an average life of only about 50 years. In time the small amount of water in a pearl's make-up is lost and its surface cracks. Because they are mostly lime, necklaces which are worn often are injured by the acid secretions of the human skin.
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Pearl Jewelry - The Story of Pearl Hunters

Posted by whoyg2587 on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:24:48 AM
As long as pearl jewelry have been known to people, they have been a highly sought commodity for their beauty. It's only in recent times however that the industry has taken the hunt for the perfect pearl to a whole different level. Today, the shiny orbs that we see on in display in jewelry stores have actually almost always been grown in farms.

That's a far cry from the dangerous extraction and collection methods used before the invention of modern technology. In the past, not more than 100 years ago, the only way to retrieve pearls was by diving in lakes, floods and the ocean to pick them up, one at the time. The unfortunate divers who'se job it was to do this, were often poor and lured by the relative large sums they could get. The diver would sometimes have to dive as deep as 100 feet on one single breath of air. In order to preserve air and to stay submerged the longest, the divers would hold on to heavy stones on the way down.

Naturally, this dangerous activity was reserved for the desperate or the powerless - in many cases slaves or extremely poor peasents. Today, this method is all but obsolete in most places of the world. The cheaper cultured pearls have become popular and are many times the only pearls available to the consumer.

There are however still a few isolated areas that practice this old art of pearl diving. Some of the finest natural pearl speciments come from the gulf of Bahrain. Here, divers still risk their health to retrieve what are considered the top of the crop in the world. In fact, Bahrain wants no part of the sale of cultured pearls, banned from trade. Bahrain is one of the few places on earth that does an active job in trying to preserve the natural habitat and waters from pollution.

It's an interesting story and one that continues to fascinate buyers around the world. Somehow, the beauty of the pearl grows when it's been retrieved from the depth of the ocean.
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Buying Pearl Jewelry Without Being Ripped Off

Posted by whoyg2587 on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:20:08 AM
Buying pearl jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. Whether you're considering a gift of pearl jewelry for someone special or as a treat for yourself, take some time to learn the terms used in the industry. Here's some information to help you get the best quality pearl jewelry for your money, whether you're shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store or online.

Pearls

Natural or real pearls are made by oysters and other mollusks. Cultured pearls also are grown by mollusks, but with human intervention; that is, an irritant introduced into the shells causes a pearl to grow. Imitation pearls are man-made with glass, plastic, or organic materials.

Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are either cultured or imitation pearls. Cultured pearls, because they are made by oysters or mollusks, usually are more expensive than imitation pears. A cultured pearl's value is largely based on its size, usually stated in millimeters, and the quality of its nacre coating, which give it luster. Jewelers should tell your if the pearls are cultured or imitation. Some black, bronze, gold, purple, blue and orange pearls, whether natural or cultured, occur that way in nature; some, however, are dyed through various processes. Jewelers should tell you whether the colored pearls are naturally colored, dyed or irradiated.

Clams, oysters, mussels and many other mollusks with limy shells are known to produce pearls. But very few kinds yield gem pearls of jeweler's quality. The pearl is an abnormal growth of mother-of-pearl, or nacre, imbedded in the soft bodies of these shellfish. It is built up, layer upon layer, in the same way as nacre is added to the lining of the growing shell and always has the same color and luster. For example, over the country, hundreds of good-sized pearls are found each year in the oysters we eat. Unfortunately these have no commercial value regardless of whether they have been cooked or not because they are dull opaque white or purple like the shell of the parent oyster. In recent times almost all pearls of gem quality come from the oriental pearl oyster which has a bright shimmering translucent nacre.

A pearl starts growing when some irritating foreign substance such as a sand grain, bit of mud, parasite or other object becomes lodged in the shell-producing gland called the mantle. Pearls formed in the soft flesh where nacre can be added on all sides are most likely to be spherical and the most highly prized. By far the great majority are flattened or variously distorted and have little value. Size, color, luster and freedom from flaws are other essential qualities. Unlike other gems, such as diamonds, pearls have an average life of only about 50 years. In time the small amount of water in a pearl's make-up is lost and its surface cracks. Because they are mostly lime, necklaces which are worn often are injured by the acid secretions of the human skin.
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This is Canada-class scenery

Posted by whoyg2587 on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:03:08 PM
Find your favourite ramble, print it out, pack your rucksack, and head out into the countryside or city

Kielder is not what I expected, let¡¯s put it that way. On paper, this looked the gentlest of jaunts ¡ª out into northernmost Northumberland to freshwater pearl ring sample a new trail that circles England¡¯s remotest body of water. Cloaked in our densest forest and darkest skies, Kielder Water may be man-made, but it¡¯s as profoundly ¡°in the country¡± as you can go. I packed my fattest novel and my thickest cagoule, and prepared to soak myself in superlative countryside.

Yet within 48 hours, I¡¯ve encountered all manner of mad stuff, including a disembodied head as big as a house, a sofa in the middle of a sheep field, and a cloud of sinister butterflies, casting orbs of light through the wholesale coral jewelry  woods.

From the minute I arrive, something feels odd. I drive the last 30 miles from Bellingham, through swerve after swerve of sheepy nowhere-land, jump out of my car at Hawkhope and drink in the lake. It¡¯s a real catch-your-breath moment: six straight miles of royal-blue water, backed by an endless frieze of conifers. The breeze is so frisky, it blows my glasses away.

This is Canada-class scenery, but the longer I gaze, the stranger the view seems. To my right is a long, pink curl of concrete, Kielder Dam. And I begin to akoya pearl necklace  notice a subtle orderliness to the forest, the suggestion of straight edges where there should be bushy froth. The scenery is magnificent, but it is also a manipulation. The lake is a fake; every tree has been planted.
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Outside Kielder Observatory

Posted by whoyg2587 on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:02:35 PM
I strike out along the new Lakeside Way, a thick stripe of stone and cinders, designed for bikes, boots, even mobility scooters, that loops right around the reservoir ¡ª 27 miles in all. This southern shore has been wooing weekenders since Kielder Water was built nearly 30 years ago, and offers plenty of outdoorsy stuff. You can multi-strand necklaces  kayak at Hawkhirst Activity Centre, go mountain-biking on Deadwater Fell, feed the owls at the Bird of Prey Centre and defy death on the Calvert Trust¡¯s treetop adventure course.

But the weirdness of the woods is enough for me. Out on Bull Crag Peninsula, I find myself in a silent grove of spruces, their trunks unnaturally straight and lofty. Some of the trees are daubed with peculiar runic hieroglyphs, others with vivid green numerals. Some are just stumps, scythed down in an apparently random act of butchery. It¡¯s compelling ¡ª but, this time, it¡¯s not an art installation. This is the everyday business of pearl jewelry wholesale commercial forestry, and it¡¯s contorted the landscape into a very unsettling place indeed.

Outside Kielder Observatory, I meet Peter Sharpe, chief curator for the forest park, who explains how the outdoor art programme here has become the most eyecatchingly ambitious in the country. With 250 square miles of forest to play with, why stop at sculpture? Projects such as the Observatory and Skyspace are daring pieces of contemporary architecture.

¡°Kielder is a challenging place,¡± Sharpe says, ¡°because it¡¯s designed to appear as natural as possible, for visitors and for wildlife. Yet the landscape is profoundly artificial. I think it¡¯s why the art works so brilliantly here. After a while, you begin to freshwater pearl jewelry notice geometric shapes in the forest, the way the trees have been lined up for felling. Almost all English countryside is man-made, but Kielder is a magnification of that. It plays tricks with your mind.¡± 
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Ahead here to road (072494). Right for 10 yards

Posted by whoyg2587 on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:02:15 PM
1 From Gomshall station cross A25; under railway; right down Wonham Way. In 250 yards (250m), right (087475) at bend. Under railway; left along lane to crossroads (082476); down Gravelpits Lane. In 100 yards, right by Gravelpits Farmhouse; follow lane over fields. In a third of a mile, left through gate (076477) to pearl necklace St James, Shere (074478).

2 From church, forward; right opposite White Horse pub. Left at T-junction (073479); in 20 yards, turn right up recreation ground.

Under A25; immediately left up zigzag path, then right up left side of Netley Plantation for half a mile to Hollister Farm (073490).

Ahead here to road (072494). Right for 10 yards ; left along North Downs Way/NDW (fingerpost) for 1¾ miles tomulti strand necklace Newlands Corner (044492).

3 Continue along NDW for three quarters of a mile to cross White Lane (033490). Left downhill on path alongside lane. Ahead by Keeper¡¯s Cottage (034486) through wood (NDW); right at NDW junction with Pilgrim¡¯s Way/PW (032484; ¡°Chapel¡± waymarks) to St Martha¡¯s Chapel on hilltop (028483).

4 Return to NDW/PW junction; ahead along PW for a quarter of a mile to cross Guildford Lane, two thirds of a mile to cross Water Lane (047484), almost a mile to reach A248 (060482).

5 Left up A248 (footpath on right of hedge) to wholesale coral jewelry A25; left for 100 yards ; cross A25 (take great care) into car park. Follow path to Sherbourne Pond and Silent Pool (061486).

6. Return to PW. Cross A248; continue across field, through Silver Wood; on across field to cross lane (069478). Follow path for a third of a mile to White Horse in Shere; on to Gomshall station.  
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My two sons and I have clambered up

Posted by whoyg2587 on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:01:56 PM
My two sons and I have clambered up a rock face on the right of this pretty bay in our wetsuits and helmets. After wading through a cave we reach a deserted sandy beach backed by high grassy cliffs. This, experiencing the shell pearl jewelry inaccessible, is a big part of the appeal of coasteering ¡ª working your way along a coastal route by any means necessary.

However, my sons, and the other children in our party, seem to get more out of the route¡¯s pi¨¨ce de r¨¦sistance ¡ª the daunting rhino jump, a plunge into the sea from a rock shaped like a rhino¡¯s head.

Sounds like an extreme adventure in New Zealand, doesn¡¯t it? Actually, we were coasteering in Jersey in the Channel Islands, a place that is better known for offshore banking than for extreme sports. My sons, Harry, 14, and freshwater pearl jewelry  Elliot, 11, showed little interest in Jersey¡¯s history as we sped there on a ferry. Instead their thoughts were summed up by Harry: ¡°What is there to do?¡±

I had a few aces up my sleeve. We were staying at the Merton Hotel in the capital, St Helier, and were taking our sons to the UK¡¯s first FlowRider. ¡°Flowboarding¡± blends surfing, wakeboarding and snowboarding. A jet of water is pumped up a sloping, cushioned surface to create a wave, which can be ridden either in cultured pearl jewelry  a prone position on a bodyboard or standing up on a custom-made flowboard.
Bluestone: Wales's first five-star holiday park
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Jamie De La Haye

Posted by whoyg2587 on Friday, November 13, 2009 8:01:37 PM
Pembrokeshire native heads down to the pearl jewelry  controversial park to test it out before its first full summer season

Jamie De La Haye, one of the hotel¡¯s instructors, took charge of a group of would-be flowboarders on our first morning. Soon he had his party of boys and girls ¡ª and the more adventurous parents ¡ª gliding up and down the FlowRider on foam bodyboards.

Coming from a surfing background, Harry, Elliot and I found the prone position easy enough, but how would we fare when we tried to stand up? De La Haye made it look easy, carving his flowboard around as if he were off-piste on a snowboard. I had a feeling that we might take a while to reach the same level, and so it proved. Harry and I managed to turn from side to side, but Elliot opted for the turquoise jewelry  swimming pool.

All this had given us a need for the real thing ¡ª stand-up surfing. In St Ouens on the western side of the island, Jersey has a beach with good waves and a surfing history as rich as any in Britain. St Ouens was the scene of the first British surfing championships in 1965 and has hosted several European championships. We arrived to find well-formed waves breaking on the five-mile expanse of sand. Harry declared that he would be happy to surf for the rest of our stay, but the following day the christmas gifts swell disappeared.
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