Natural Tahitian Black Pearls

Are black pearls real.

Natural tahitian black pearls.

Black akoya and black freshwater pearls are dyed. Cultured pearls come in different sizes shapes and colors. Black lip pearl oysters have a rainbow like mantle which exhibits all natural colors. Which means the pearl farmer will very skillfully insert a round shell bead inside the oyster.

Although the black pearls are the most common these gems also come in color ranges from graphite to metallic silver. Perhaps the best loved gems of all time pearls both natural and modern cultured pearls occur in a wide variety of colors. Known for their naturally occurring dark shades and big sizes 8 0mm up through 15 0 16 0mm or so tahitian pearls are the only cultured naturally black pearls available on the jewelry market with any regularity. Black tahitian pearls are the only natural black pearl.

3 tahitian pearls come in many shapes and that s a good thing tahitian pearls are bead nucleated. There are few if any left in the seas to harvest anymore. Instead what we see are dark greens blues purples silver gray and the most coveted. These colors are expressed in tahitian pearls in a magical way with colors shimmering over the surface of some of the best specimens.

Within the pearl industry the term black is used to describe any pearl with a dark body color. Tahitian pearls come in a range of colors from white to black. Tahitian pearls are the only pearls that come in a full array of colors. Because natural pearls are so rare they are extremely expensive.

The most familiar colors are white and cream a light yellowish brown. So buying natural pearls means finding a vintage pearl or antique pearl jewelry which often comes with astronomical costs. They can contain various undertones and overtones of green pink blue silver and yellow. Harvested in french polynesia these exquisite jewels of the sea come to us from the black lip variety of pinctada margaritifera oyster.

It s important to note that tahitian pearls are the only naturally black pearls. Tahitian pearls are the only pearls that have a full color spectrum. Black gray and silver are also fairly. The most valuable of these are of the darker variety as the naturally dark tones of the tahitian pearls is a unique quality among pearls.

Dazzling black pearls natural color tahitian pearls are among the most popular cultured pearls in the marketplace today. These are the two largest pearls in the contest photo. Their body colors range from light dove greys all the. They feature overtones that are greenish bluish or purplish.

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