If you haven’t owned any pearl jewelry before, then you may find yourself somewhat confused by how prices can vary so much.  For example why is it that say a pendant can cost no more than $50, yet another can be as much as $5,000.  Well it really all comes down to the kind of pearls that are used in creating such pieces of jewelry.

Another factor also that needs to be taken into consideration is the actual colour of the pearls used.  But you may think well why is it that a piece of jewelry containing say South Sea or Tahitian pearls cost more than say Akoya pearls? read more

The Company that produces Edison pearls closely guards the techniques that they use to create these beautiful jewels.  This includes not allowing people to know on which of their farms that each of the pearls they produced is grown.

However one thing that we do know is that they carefully select which molluscs will be used in the process.  This selection is done through genetic research that they have carried out.

Once they have chosen the molluscs to use in the making of cultured Edison pearls they are then implanted with a tiny bead.  This is unusual, as normally freshwater molluscs will have a small piece of mussel tissue implanted into them to create pearls. read more