Please note that the number of beads per 16″ strand is an estimate only. The number of beads per strand will vary. 2mm 203 3mm 136 4mm 100 6mm 67 8mm 50 10mm 41 12mm 34
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Super Simple And Super Cost Effective And Super No Scrub Fast! Simply boil a pot of water adding 1 Tbsp Of Baking Soda Per Two Cups Of Water. Then line your sink with foil shine up then place your silver on top of foil. Pour boiling mixture slowly over your silver. Make sure your silver [...]
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The Incredible Jewelry CLEARANCE Event – 2 Days OnlyShop ClearanceIWelcome and thank you for shopping at Hand Trades. We appreciate you, our customer, and are excited to announce this special offer.IFor the next couple of days you can save 30% on over 230 items in the clearance section. Sterling silver jewelry made with very popular [...]
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Shell pearls go through a process to become the beautiful, shining and durable jewelry that they are known for. Made from Oysters Shell the raw material that is used at the pearl base is the sea shell. After being coated and polished into the right shape a mother of pearl bead is used as the [...]
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Freshwater Pearls are great pearls, and can compete favorably with Salt Water pearls. Some of this information is my professional (Gemologist) opinion offered for your use. You’re probably a better search engine user than I am, and many guides are at your fingertips. This guide is quick, and designed to give you a good start [...]
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• The Clarity Enhancement Diamond process makes a diamonds natural imperfections invisible. Every diamond has minute inclusions and when light travels throughout a diamond the inclusions reflect the light in such a way that the inclusion becomes visible. Clarity Enhancement occurs when a microscopic amount of materials injected into the part of the diamond that [...]
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Jade refers collectively to two different minerals-jadeite (also called soft jade) and nephrite (also called “ancient jade” or hard jade). Jadeite and nephrite have different physical and chemical characteristics: They also have different crystal structures, colors, specific gravities, refractive indices and hardness. Most jade on the market is composed of nephrite. Jadeite is more rare [...]
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I have had several questions on Silver content in Jewelry so I thought I might offer some of the information I have come across. Silver content in jewelry is usually marked by a stamp depecting the amount of Silver in the item, ie. 925, 835 etc. There are exceptions to this, for instance Native American [...]
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The melo melo “pearl” does not come from an oyster or mollusk, but comes instead from the melo melo marine snail, which is found in the waters of the South China Sea, as far south and west to Singaport and Andaman Sea. Like conch pearls, the melo melo gem is not actually a nacreous pearl [...]
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Abalone pearls are natural pearls from the gastropod mollusk, Haliotis. Abalone pearls are found mainly along the coasts of California and Mexico, Abalone pearls come from the most colorful of all pearl-producing mollusks. They are iridescent calcareous concretions that are created by a univalve organism, the abalone. These natural pearls occur in all the colors [...]
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