Biwa buy pearls. Natural Rose Gold & Peach colors 16” Strand. Center drilled Vintage Japanese Pearls

Vintage New Japanese freshwater free form button/Rice shaped Biwa pearls.

You will receive the strand in these pictures.

Center drilled.

Very High Rose Gold/Copper/Peach Luster.

16 inch Strand

Size is average

Aprox 3x4mm pearls

These pearls have a very high luster to them with rainbow and metallic colors, the copper peach color is natural. They're more beautiful in person.

Would be beautiful wire wrapped with Rose Gold wire.

Please look closely at pictures before you purchase.

These pearls will need to be restrung if you plan to wear them.

These are not your fast cultured Chinese Pearls on today's market, these pearls are vintage, grown with the highest Japanese standards for cultured pearls to give them the highest luster and thickest nacre that will give them long high luster life.

They're freshwater cultured Pearl cultivated with the tissue method not Mother of Pearl Bead method.

Biwa Characteristics
Kokichi Mikimoto is the man most credited with perfecting the techniques of freshwater pearl culturing. He and his associates, experimenting at Lake Biwa, seeded mussels only with soft mantle tissue. This resulted in an all-nacre pearl of good luster and unusual shape—the rice-grain shape was typical. Biwa pearls also emerged in previously unseen colors, and they could be mass-produced. Technicians could plant many bits of mantle tissue in one mussel, and harvest 15 or 20 small pearls from each. From the 1930s on, Biwa set the standard for freshwater cultured pearl quality, and made pearls more affordable than they had ever been.

Biwa's Decline
Biwa pearls came on the market just when the natural, saltwater pearl fishing industry was going into serious decline. Overfishing and pollution had damaged mollusk beds, especially in the Persian Gulf. By the 1930s, the oil industry there also tempted workers away from the great dangers of pearl diving to safer jobs on land. In less than 50 years, however, Biwa pearl production also declined, thanks to similar factors—pollution at Lake Biwa and fresh competition from abroad, especially China.

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