They range in size from 2mm tiny to 10mm rare and are usually white or cream in color and round in shape.
Types of pearls colors.
They can naturally be produced in pastel shades of pink lavender and peach and are also often dyed brighter colors.
Pearl color and value.
These pearls come from china and are available in a wide range of pearl colors shapes and sizes.
As the rarest pearls on earth a single strand of these magnificent gems can take many years of harvests to assemble as each pearl must be painstakingly matched for size roundness color and quality.
While white is a naturally occurring color in freshwater and akoya pearls these types are routinely bleached to create an even whiter bodycolor and then subjected to a treatment.
Pearls that grow with a natural white color include akoya pearls freshwater pearls south sea pearls and even occasional tahitian pearls which are most often dark.
Pearl color has a major impact on cost although there are other factors to consider as well such as size type quality shape and luster.
In terms of color these pearls are commonly found in white or cream shades with beautiful overtones of pink cream and lavender.
There are also different types of mollusks that produce very different looking pearls.
These types of pearls are generally grown in rivers ponds and lakes and predominantly in china.
White and golden south sea pearl types.
Among those attributes luster is the most important differentiator of pearl quality according to jewelers.
The value of the pearls in jewelry is determined by a combination of the luster color size lack of surface flaw and symmetry that are appropriate for the type of pearl under consideration.
Perhaps the best loved gems of all time pearls both natural and modern cultured pearls occur in a wide variety of colors.
If a pearl color is uniform and even it adds to the value of the stone.
Black gray and silver are also fairly.
The most familiar colors are white and cream a light yellowish brown.
These can range in size from 6 0 7 0mm up through 15 0 16 0mm and higher depending on the pearl type you choose.
Cultured pearls come in different sizes shapes and colors.
They can be as large as 15 millimeters.
Many of these are white and generally resemble the akoya pearl in both size and shape.
However the growth period varies from farm to farm which is why freshwater pearls have the widest size range of all pearl types.
Their sizes vary from around 2 0 mm to 15 0 mm.
Saltwater pearls include the akoya cultured pearls grown in japanese and chinese waters.