This freshwater pearl bracelet is for those Girlie Girls who love pink. The bracelet is designed with two strands of
delicate blush pink pearls; they are contrasted by faceted black Onyx beads and sterling silver beads. The finishing touch to this freshwater pearl bracelet is a double heart clasp.
Like many of our handmade beaded jewelry, this charming pearl bracelet lends itself to be worn with a prom dress or bridesmaid dress or...let your imagination wonder.
Don’t just imagine how well this pearl bracelet would look on your wrist, place the order today. In a few days you can see for yourself what a wonderful decision you made in purchasing this pink freshwater pearl bracelet.
Pearls symbolize honesty, wisdom, purity, innocence, integrity and serenity. Pearls can stimulate your femininity; they lift
your spirits and make you feel beautiful. Pearls foster motherly love and ensure good health and longevity. With their humble beginnings
as a grain of sand and slowly transformed over time into an object of value and beauty, they help us get in touch with the simple things
in life.
Physically, pearls aid with the heart, digestion and stomach, and with the immune system.
Before the beginning of the 20th Century, pearl hunting was the most common way of harvesting pearls. Divers manually pulled oysters
from ocean floors and river bottoms and checked them individually for pearls. Not all natural oysters produce pearls, however.
In fact, in a haul of three tons, only three or four oysters will produce perfect pearls.
Now, however, almost all pearls used for jewelry are cultured by planting a core or nucleus into pearl oysters. The pearls are
usually harvested three years after the planting, but it can take up to as long as six years before a pearl is produced.
Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks. As a response to an irritating object inside its shell, the mollusk
will deposit layers of calcium carbonate and conchiolin which forms nacre, or as most of us know it, mother-of-pearl.
The unique luster of pearls depends upon the reflection and refraction of light from the translucent layers and is finer in
proportion as the layers become thinner and more numerous. The iridescence that some pearls display is caused by the overlapping
of successive layers, which breaks up light falling on the surface.
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. Among those attributes, luster is the most important differentiator
of pearl quality according to jewelers. All factors being equal, however, the larger the pearl the more valuable it is. Pearls come
in eight basic shapes: round, semi-round, button, drop, pear, oval, baroque, and ringed. Large, perfectly round pearls are
rare and highly valued. (Wikipedia 2006)
Onyx is a striped, semiprecious variety of agate, with white, black, brown or red alternating bands. It is different from regular
agate only in that the bands of which it is composed are parallel and regular. Black Onyx is known to occur naturally in black;
however, it is almost always dyed to achieve a more uniform color. It is also often subjected to high temperatures to enhance
the richness of its color.
Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word onux, which means fingernail. The
story is that one day a playful Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the
clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone so that no part of the heavenly body would ever perish. True,
black isn't normally the color one associates with fingernails. But in Greek times, almost all colors of chalcedony from fingernail
white to dark brown and black were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to black and dark brown colors only.
The ancient Greeks and Romans used onyx for cameos and intaglios, and in India, onyx was worn for protecting against the evil eye
and also for cooling ardor (it was believed that onyx provoked discord and separated lovers). In the Middle East, onyx was used
as a worry stone because people believed the gemstone absorbed negative energy… a belief that may have been produced by the Chinese
miners who feared it and pulled the material out of the mine to immediately sell outside the country.
Onyx is purported to help eliminate apathy, stress and neurological disorders, eliminate negative thinking, and sharpen the wits
of the wearer. It is used to change habits, in addition to helping concentration levels and aiding absentmindedness. Some think
it makes the wearer more eloquent, and thus it is worn for public speaking.
The main sources of onyx are India and South America, but it is also found in China, Madagascar, Mexico and the U.S.A.
Metaphysical and healing lore information is for inspirational and entertainment purposes only. Please see a healthcare professional
for help with any ailments you are experiencing.
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