The Beauty of Biwa Pearls

Pearl jewelries have fascinated making more than anything else. They are more versatile than any other jewelry. They offer an executive touch to your drapery as well as personality. One of the mot common types of pearl is the Biwa pearl. They are grown in freshwater lakes and rivers and they derive their name from the lake Biwa in Japan. In this lake, fine Biwa Pearls are cultivated. The freshwater pearls are cultured in the lake Biwa right from 1914.

Biwa Pearls are popular for their specific brownish purple colors with a very high luster. They are nucleated as the freshwater pearls today. It is a small piece of a mantle tissue lining its shell. This is a different technique than the saltwater pearls are nucleated that with a small piece of mother of pearl. The nucleating of the soft tissues makes a pearl that has most of the acre, and resembles like a natural pearl.

The Biwa Pearls featured colors that were never seen neither imagined in the saltwater pearls. It has all distinctive colors. Its luster and the depth of luminescence were similar to that of the natural pearls. Nowadays, these freshwater Biwa Pearls are grown in many countries like China, United States of America, Ireland and Japan. In the process, they use fine muscle type mollusks. Mother of pearl bead is not inserted in this process for the pearls to grow rapidly. Each mussel simultaneously produces a number of pearls. As a result of this, the freshwater pearls are less expensive than the other pearls.

You can wear these freshwater Biwa Pearls either singly or group them together with alternating colors to make a multi-colored Biwa Pearl necklace. It can be hanged down straight or twisted a bit to give a dramatic effect. These are inexpensive pearls and hence can be afforded by general people to make endless variety of looks.

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