Posts tagged cultured pearls

The Discovery of Cultured Pearls

The discovery of cultured pearls is given to William Sawville-Kent, a British expatriate marine biologist made a way to stimulate a mollusk to produce whole pearls in Australia. His technique was to implant a small piece of donor mollusk into the mantle tissue. The small tissue acted as a catalyst to pearl production. Sadly after [...]


A Short Story of Pearls

The story of pearls even started 4000 years ago, but those who can only use pearls are the rich and the royalty. It was difficult to acquire pearls that is why most scientists and pearl farmers wanted to learn how they can create their own pearls. There were a lot of different attempts to produce [...]