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2. Paper to Pearls - Wikipedia

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   Paper to Pearls sells its jewelry through a number of channels. They maintain an online store, as well as selling through retail outlets, primarily in the Washington DC Metro Area. In addition, they pursue a bead party model, which relies on individuals hosting private sales events in their homes or inviting their friends to designation ...

3. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Beads may be large or small; the smallest type of beads used are known as seed beads, these are the beads used for the "woven" style of beaded jewellery. Seed beads are also used in an embroidery technique where they are sewn onto fabric backings to create broad collar neck pieces and beaded bracelets.

4. Bead - Wikipedia

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   A selection of glass beads Merovingian bead Trade beads, 18th century Trade beads, 18th century. A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 ...

5. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Later, large near perfect round bead nucleated pearls up to 15mm in diameter have been produced with metallic luster. The nucleus bead in a beaded cultured pearl is generally a polished sphere made from freshwater mussel shell. Along with a small piece of mantle tissue from another mollusk (donor shell) to serve as a catalyst for the pearl sac ...

6. Gemstone - Wikipedia

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   Pearls are a gemstone that is commonly treated with hydrogen peroxide to remove unwanted colours Another treatment method that is commonly used to treat gemstones is bleaching. This method uses a chemical in order to reduce the colour of the gem.

7. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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   White pearl necklace. A pearl nucleus or a bead for cultured pearl is a sphere (usually) or other shape (occasionally) formed only by cutting and polishing a nacreous shell used to accommodate the nacre secreted from a graft of mantle tissue, that eventually forms the centre of a beaded cultured pearl. [2]