The word pearls has one syllables.
"Crafted pearls" really refer to hand crafted pearls which generally connote pearls of quality and high grade. Machine made pearls on the other hand, are cheap in quality, often made of plastic and are used in low quality fashion jewelry and toys. For an excellent resource on pearls and hand crafted pearls, the history of pearls and pearl buying check out this pearl quality guide. It's one on a number of topics related to pearl jewelry http://www.uniquepearl.com/pearl-education/pearl-quality-guide.html
The places to purchase South Sea pearls online are many and varied. A good place to start would be Pearl Paradise, Raw Pearls, Premium Pearls and Pearl Gallery.
Majorica pearls are simply just imitation pearls. Imitation pearls tend to be completely smooth. Real pearls should have a slightly rougher texture almost like stucco.
No one can specifically say who discovered pearls. One legend has the Hindu god Krishna discovering pearls when he plucks the first one from the sea and presents it to his daughter Pandaïa on her wedding day.
There are many online retailers whereby it is possible to purchase brown pearls. These retailers include "John Lewis", "PearlsOnly" and also "Pearson James".
One can purchase loose pearls from online stores such as the website Amazon, Tahiti Pearl Online, Pearl Paradise, Aloha Pearls and the bidding website eBay.
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Natural pearls are very rare. They are, in fact, much more rare than diamonds. There is no scientific study available that definitively shows how rare a natural pearl is, but many experts believe it takes approximately 10,000 mollusks to find one fine natural pearl. However, in areas of Central America, there are places where natural pearls are much more prevalent. It is believe this is due to a higher parasitic concentration. Cultured pearls are not nearly as rare. In fact, all the pearls we see today in jewelry stores are cultured pearls. The natural pearl industry all but died nearly 100 years ago. Cultured pearls are pearls grown on farms where pearl mollusks are nucleated and then tended for a period of time, eventually producing a pearl.
Pearls are 'grown' by some irritant entering an oyster and the oyster growing a layer of mother-of-pearl (nacre) around it. In natural pearls this is usually a grain of sand and it takes a lot of growing to get a pearl of marketable value. Artificial (cultured) pearls are made by people inserting some round object (the size and shape of the desired pearl) and letting the oyster grow a thin layer of mother-of-pearl around it. This object can be anything but shell or porcelain are preferred as they do not break down. If one uses wood then, over time, the wood will eventually rot and the 'pearl' will fall apart. Such pearls are not valuable and are considered a scam. The only way to tell real pearls from artificial pearls is by using an x-ray machine however it is still difficult to tell what the centre object is made of.
Depends on what you want, and how good the diamonds and pearls are. Generally, though, diamonds are worth more for their size and weight than pearls.
A natural pearl, which is rather rare, can form over a wide range of time periods, ranging from years to decades. Cultured pearls, which are simply man-made spheres implanted into the appropriate species of shellfish and covered with thin layers of nacre, take a much shorter time, and are harvested after one to five years.