We often wear pearls as accessories. This habit existed thousands of years ago, but there are many varieties of pearls. Today, let me introduce the classification of pearls!
Most of the pearls seen on the market are artificially cultured, and cultured pearls are divided into two categories: freshwater and seawater.
More than 95% of freshwater pearls are produced in China, including seedless and seeded pearls. Seedless pearls are many pearls produced in a clam shell, and most of them are relatively small. Nucleated pearls are the most common pearls on the market. Top freshwater pearls are comparable to seawater pearls. The colors of freshwater pearls are actually very rich. Common ones are white, pink, orange, and purple, but there are no gold and black ones.
Seawater pearls are mainly divided into three categories. The first category is AKOYA pearls originated in Japan. AKOYA is also the best pearl origin in the world. The gloss of AKOYA pearls is very strong and has the title of “small light bulb”, but most of them do not exceed 10mm in diameter. AKOYA pearls also come in many colors, including white, blue, and light gold.
The second type is South Sea pearls, the pearls produced are relatively large, usually above 10mm in size. Because the mother oysters of South Sea pearls are very picky about the environment, the production of South Sea pearls is small and it is difficult to obtain, so high-quality South Sea pearls are very expensive.
The third category is black pearls that are more than 95% from Tahiti in the South Pacific.
The above is the knowledge about pearl classification. If you are interested in pearl jewelry, you are welcome to buy high-quality and cheap wholesale jewelry on jewelrykg!
