Freshwater Pearl Jewellery

December 4th, 2006 | Jewellery information

A pearl is created when an oyster gets a grain of sand inside it - the oyster tries to ease the irritant by covering it in layers of nacre. Over time, the layers increase and the grain of sand turns into a pearl - a spherical, ball of nacre. Freshwater pearls are created the same way but instead of the oyster naturally getting the sand inside it (which is purely chance) the sand is added by people - so it’s almost guaranteed to get a pearl in due course.

One of our favourite designers - Kit Heath - uses pearl a lot in their pieces to great effect. We also like to have pieces where the differences in colour are highlighted - which they certainly are with our marcasite jewellery (example images can be seen below).

Have a look at our freshwater pearl jewellery here. Another page of fresh water pearl jewellery is here.