Small irregular pearls, 4x5mm somewhere between silver and champagne
These cam from Beadazzled's Falls Church inventory and I don't know much about them.
Irregular shapes like these can add texture, especially to multi-strand designs and at the intersection between warm and cool tones they should be versatile as their mix of flat and rounded surfaces reflects the light differently
Their bargain price should help them find good homes
Most gems are stones, but a few like Pearl, Amber, Jet, and Coral, are classified as Organic gems, meaning they came from living things.
Pearls are formed inside bivalves (similar to oysters), which coat any foreign substance that gets inside their shell with a smooth layer of pearly nacre to reduce the irritation.
The Chinese cultured in the 12thor 13thcentury, but the Japanese developed it into an industry in the 1890s, inserting mother-of-pearl beads as the basis of their cultured Pearls.
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