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    Cultured pearls are pearls which are formed within a cultured pearl sac with human intervention in the interior of productive living molluscs in a variety...
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    but are extremely rare. These wild pearls are referred to as natural pearls. Cultured or farmed pearls from pearl oysters and freshwater mussels make...
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    Cultured freshwater pearls are pearls that are farmed and created using freshwater mussels. These pearls are produced in Japan and the United States on...
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    Most cultured freshwater pearls are baroque because freshwater pearls are mantle-tissue nucleated instead of bead nucleated. Cultured saltwater pearls can...
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    pearl can more easily grow to a larger-than-average size. The cultured Tahitian pearl comes in various shapes, sizes, and colors; shapes include round...
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    Kokichi Mikimoto (category Pearls)
    creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. He...
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    recorded use of pearl as a color name in English was in 1604. The color is used in interior design when an off-white tint is desired. Cultured pearl is one of...
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    Imitation pearls are man-made faux pearls. They are not to be confused with cultured pearls, which are real pearls created through human intervention....
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    Nacre (redirect from Mother of pearl)
    structure as is found in conch pearls. The outer layer of cultured pearls and the inside layer of pearl oyster and freshwater pearl mussel shells are made of...
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    The island is known as the birthplace of cultured pearl aquaculture. The island is owned by Mikimoto Pearl Museum Co., Ltd. (株式会社ミキモト真珠島,...
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    largest in the world by 1910.[clarification needed] The farming of cultured pearls remains an important part of the Kimberley economy, worth A$67 million...
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    important to the cultured pearl industry as they are cultivated to produce South Sea pearls. The South Sea pearl or Philippine pearl was declared by Philippine...
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  • Thumbnail for Pearl Bailey
    News, Virginia is named after her. Pearl Bailey Entertains (1950) and 1953 Birth of the Blues (1952) Cultured Pearl (1952) I'm with You (1953) Say Si Si...
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  • "Pearl culture in India: Biology". Pearl oyster farming and pearl culture. F A O. Retrieved 2014-02-15. "Cultured pearl". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved...
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    with careful advanced planning cultured pearls can be made round. Cultured pearls have a similar color to natural pearls as the nacre is laid down by the...
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    Pinctada (redirect from Pearl Oyster)
    culturing South Sea and Tahitian pearls. They are cultured widely primarily in the central and eastern Indo-Pacific. A pearl oyster can be seen on the reverse...
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  • Paspaley (category Pearls)
    South Sea pearl oysters – with the dream to cultivate the world's largest and most valuable cultured pearl – the cultured South Sea pearl. In the early...
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    Both cultured pearls and natural pearls can be extracted from pearl oysters, though other molluscs, such as the freshwater mussels, also yield pearls of...
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    create pearls and some can also be used as a source of mother of pearl. Most cultured pearls today come from Hyriopsis species in Asia, or Amblema species...
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  • Thumbnail for Pearl hunting
    Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters...
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    individual keshi pearl grew serendipitously or as a result of mantle tissue insertion, they are all classified as cultivated/cultured pearls. It is possible...
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  • 2007, "1,600 tons of pearls - over 95 percent of the world's total output". Zhuji City -- pearl industry base Cultured pearls Pearl hunting MacArtney, Jane...
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    repealing the Pearling Act that prohibited the production, sale and possession of cultured pearls. A monument to the founders of the Kuri Bay pearling industry...
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  • Pearling may refer to: Pearl farming, which creates cultured pearls Pearl hunting, the practice of diving for pearls and mother of pearl (nacre) Pearling...
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    families took place, storm clouds were brewing over the pearling market. The Japanese cultured pearl, first a wonder shown at expos and other fairs, started...
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    there have been many specialty sets, including Silver Swirls, Gem Tones, Pearl Brite Crayons, Metallic FX Crayons, Magic Scent Crayons, Silly Scents, and...
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    (UA) #9E1B32 62% 11% 20% 349° 71% 36% 83% 62% University of Alabama Cultured Pearl #F5F5F5 96% 96% 96% —° 0% 96% 0% 96% Crayola Cyan #00FFFF 0% 100% 100%...
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  • John Latendresse (category Pearls)
    an American collector, known for being the "father of American cultured freshwater pearls". He left home at 13, and lying about his age, joined the U.S...
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  • selling counterfeit David Yurman goods. 1981: Designer of the Year by the Cultured Pearl Associations of America and Japan 2013: Annual Visionaries! Award from...
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    Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. It is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific region and is used for the production of cultured pearls. The generic...
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