Throughout most of this century, the Japanese dominated the cultured-pearl industry. The Chinese were the first to culture a product from freshwater mussels, though their centuries-old Buddhas are ...

Pliny, the world's first gemologist, writes in his famous ... Kokichi Mikimoto single-handedly launched the cultured-pearl industry. Kokichi Mikimoto, the son of a noodle maker, had a dream ...

That's how Jesse Jo Stark, the creative director of L.A.-based jewelry label Chrome Hearts, describes her new collaboration ...

I think that's something very impressive. It's a metal component that's about 1 meter wide, with a boxy shape.

Natural versus cultured. Natural pearls are hard to find. They're rare, and this makes them worth more money. But let's rewind for a second. What is a natural pearl, and how are they formed?

After Mikimoto founder Kokichi Mikimoto invented cultured pearl technology ... market retailer answering the call. “Pearls are probably one of the first jewelry categories that we see men ...

An curved arrow pointing right. South Sea pearls are the largest cultured-pearl variety, sometimes reaching over 20 millimeters in diameter. The Pinctada maxima oyster can take up to five years to ...

Ancient civilizations prized natural pearls as symbols of divine power. In 1893 Kokichi Mikimoto saved these gems from ...

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

At the recent BRICS summit in Kazan John Shipton, activist and the father of WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, took part in ...

Glowing like sunlight made solid, this 13-15mm golden South Sea pearl necklace is a statement piece ... [+] with an 18-karat gold clasp. Instantly identifiable yet relatively rare, golden South ...

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