One of the types of blue pearls comes from the silver lip oyster when there is a contaminant either in the nacre or between the nacre and the shell bead.
Different types of pearls with pictures.
Up until 1989 pearls were only found.
The gold lipped type produces mostly yellow to golden coloured pearls and is found in the philippines and indonesia.
Pearl colors the main types of natural south sea pearls are golden and white but due to their unique structure the color of the pearl can vary according to lighting.
The mabe pearl is also well known as the penguin wing oyster and is used as the mother shell.
As you can see you ll be spoiled for choice when buying pearls.
The above are the main types of pearl varieties available on the market.
Size large pearls are extremely rare and with sizes up to 20mm south sea pearls stand out from all the other types of pearls.
These pearls are highly distributed all over the world along the steamy and semi tropical seas making them readily accessible to various pearl farmers at different parts of the world.
Due to their availability and affordable prices they are among the most popular of all pearl types for both designers and consumers alike.
In japanese keshi literally means poppy seed.
This is why many people keep adding to their pearl collection.
Freshwater pearls come in an almost unlimited verity of shapes from symmetrical round to baroque and everything in between.
Maxima the silver lipped and the gold lipped.
Each year we see exciting.
There are two different types of p.
Other types of pearls called blue comes from the abalone which is technically a large snail of the genus haliotis.