There is something really clean, nostalgic and genuine about pearls. I am kind of obsessed with uncultured black pearls.
Pearl cultivation actually started eight hundred years ago in China, when carvings of Buddhist deities were planted in river mollusks in order to be coated with pearl-like layers. However, it wasn't until about 1900 that Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in fully cultivating round pearls. Nowadays pearls come in every shape, size and color imaginable, and as if to reflect this, prices for these water born jewels are as equally varied.
Natural, uncultured pearls are the most expensive of all pearls but are very rarely seen in today's market. Nowadays they only make appearances as antiques.
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