It was in 1930 when the freshwater pearls coming from the Biwa lake in Japan, were introduced in the market of pearls, contributing to a range of colors and tones until then strangers. Nowadays there are many regions in Asia that cultivate freshwater pearls, reaching colorfull substitutes and high quality levels.

The natural color of the freshwater pearls comes from a combination of several factors, that we will enumerated by influence order.

1. freshwater pearls are organic gems, formed by a living creature, the base color of the pearl, the main one, depends on the species of the pearls oister. The Nacre, which generates an analgesic to the pearl to reduce the pain that causes the insertion of a strange body in its interior, can have different colors according to the mother oister who secretes and deposits the nacre.

The color of nacre can vary throughout the cultive of the pearl, and the base color resultant can be very diverse, being the most habitual white, rose, peach, malva, cream, grays and extraordinarily violet . +CONTINUE