Freshwater Beads—Things You Need to Know

Today, no one will ask why when people say “I love pearls”, I think, because many people are attracted by pearls’ beauty, elegance and luster. On today’s fashion jewelry market, almost all the pearl jewelry pieces are created with freshwater beads.

For thousands of years, pearls have been admired for their beauty and rarity all over the world. In some ancient countries, people believed that pearls were a symbol of the moon and had magical powers. It was said that in ancient times, knights wore pearls onto the battlefield believing the pearls’ magic would protect them. Many famous rulers were also fond of pearls.

Grade A Freshwater Pearl Strands

In ancient ages, all the pearls are natural sea pearls. They are the symbol of rich and states of the nobles and the rich. Today, almost all the pearl beads used in fashion jewelry are freshwater beads (cultured pearls). The difference between wild and cultured pearls focuses on whether the pearl is created spontaneously by nature (without human intervention) or with human aid. There are many different types of freshwater beads, such as South Sea Pearls, mabe pearls and so on. Freshwater pearls are grown in non-saline water, but the South Sea pearls and Tahitians are cultured in salt water. But unlike cultured saltwater pearls, freshwater pearls are not bead-nucleated and are therefore typically less round. Only two percent of all freshwater beads are round or near round. Though this number seems quite small, the abundance of freshwater pearl beads is much larger than other pearls types. The most common shapes of these beads are oval and button shaped.

Grade A Natural Freshwater Pearl Strands

On today’s fashion jewelry market, we can easily find many freshwater pearls. These freshwater beads are available in a wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. Originally these pearls were marketed as an inexpensive alternative to natural sea pearls. For this reason, jewelry makers traditionally used freshwater pearl beads for pieces that favored design over the gems themselves. However, since the 1990s, the freshwater beads have a large improvement in both quality and value; and then more and more freshwater pearls have been used in fashion jewelry making designs.

Many jewelry beads suppliers can offer freshwater pearl beads, some are retailers and the others are wholesalers. There are several main suppliers of freshwater beads, and China is the largest one. Many beads manufacturers in China have their own freshwater pearls farms or have a long and friendly cooperation with these farms. So, if you want to get cheap and quality freshwater beads, China is a good choice.

Use Pearl Beads to Create Gifts for Thanksgiving Day

Pearls are beautiful, classic and feminine so that pearl beads are always used to create jewelry for women, from ancient till now, even in the future. On today’s fashion jewelry market, the pearl beads you see are mainly freshwater pearl beads. They come in different quality, colors and shapes, so that you have a wide range of selection for your designs.

In ancient time, natural deep sea pearls were the jewelry or decoration of noble or rich women only. But today, every woman has ability to own pearls because there are a lot of freshwater pearl beads available on fashion jewelry market. They are beautiful as sea pearls but much cheaper. And people who like to create pearl jewelries don’t need to spend a lot of money any more.

Freshwater Pearl Beads

Every woman, no matter they are young or old, would like to have one piece of pearl beads jewelry. Thanksgiving Day is not far. Have you thought any good idea about the gift for your mom on that day? If no, why not create pearl beads jewelry by your hands for her? A simple stringed pearl beads necklace or bracelet should be very elegant. Don’t doubt its elegance, even though it is just simply stringed. Choose some quality freshwater pearl beads, silk thread and magnetic clasp. The Grade A pearl beads will show your mom’s elegant and beautiful correctly and fully. And the magnetic clasp is very easy to open and close. Don’t ignore the small detail about choosing clasp. It can express your meticulous love to your mom. Use the same materials to create a matching pearl beads bracelet with necklace as a jewelry set. I am sure it will be the warmest and specialist gift to your mom. Well, don’t forget to measure your mom’s wrist to make sure the length is long enough. You can also use some pearl beads to create a pair of earrings for your female who you want to say thank you on Thanksgiving Day. You can use pearls and crystal beads to create cute, lovely jewelry pieces if she is young.

 Pearl Strands Mix

That warm holiday is coming soon. So it is time to purchase pearl beads and other jewelry materials to create your holiday gift now. However, when you search pearl beads in your local jewelry beads retail stores, and you will find their prices are still a little high. In order to save money and get a large range of selection, I would like to suggest you to search a reliable online jewelry beads wholesaler and purchase your materials there. 

How to Distinguish Real Freshwater Pearls and Where to Buy

Pearl beads are always one of the favorites for women. They are not expensive as diamonds, but elegant enough. And on today’s fashion jewelry market, freshwater pearl beads are becoming more and more popular as they are natural but much cheaper than sea pearls. And the available quality of freshwater pearls is much larger than sea peals, for there are many bases for culturing pearls, especially in China.

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Freshwater pearl beads can be considered as a fabulous treasure that can be the most valuable asset for any woman. As they are cheap, wearing such pearl jewelry renders the women a totally new look without any pressure on budget. Why these beads are so popular with women and jewelry designers? Historically, freshwater pearl beads have been used for decoration for a long time. And there are a large number of historic characters whom you can spot wearing them. Their popularity has increased with the passage of time. These beads are versatile. They are widely used in necklace making, bracelet making, earrings making, rings making and many other decorations, like hair decoration. Although freshwater pearls are often somewhat less lustrous then saltwater counterparts, they appear in a wide variety of shapes and colors, and they tend to be less expensive than saltwater pearls. These beads are also quite durable, resisting chipping, wear, and degeneration.

Freshwater pearls are so popular, but how to distinguish if they are real? Here are some guidelines. The first is tooth test, rubbing the pearls lightly across upper front teeth. Real peals should feel gritty or sandy, fake pearls will feel smooth. The second, using a magnifying glass to check. The edges of the hole in real pearls are smooth and sharp, otherwise, they are fakes. Third, there are little minimal flaws on real peals’ surface. They are most likely fake pearls if they appear absolutely flawless.

 Freshwater Pearl Beads

In recent years, the Chinese have been able to take the art of culturing freshwater pearls to new levels. In the last decade the quality of pearls produced have become so high that many pearls in the top percentage of a harvest are nearly indistinguishable of their saltwater ones. There are several famous pearl farm bases in China, and many Chinese jewelry wholesalers or factories have their own pearl farms or have cooperation with those farms. Many jewelry retailers around the world also like to wholesale these pearls from China and sell them in their countries. If you want to save money, you can purchase these beads from Chinese wholesalers directly, and PandaHall as a leading China beads, findings and gems online market is a good choice. 

Use Drilled Pearl Beads to Create Jewelry Gifts for Mother’s Day

Drilled pearl beads are favorites to both jewelry makers and jewelry wearers. They are classified as full drilled pearl beads and half drilled pearl beads. They are also classified as top drilled pearl beads and middle drilled pearl beads according to the places of holes. Pearl beads jewelry is fabulous jewelry gift for Mother’s Day.

Tibetan Silver Bead Caps, Lead Free and Cadmium Free and Nickel Free

Drilled pearl beads contain natural pearl beads and imitational pearl beads on today’s fashion jewelry market. Natural pearl beads are costly, especially the natural deep sea pearl beads, so that there are more and more imitational pearl beads are available in fashion jewelry market. While not all the natural pearl beads are costly. Natural freshwater pearl beads with high quality are very affordable and have a number of selections. They are perfect choices for create elegant jewelry gifts for the coming Mother’s Day.

Drilled pearl beads come in various shapes, colors and sizes. The classic shapes including round, drop, button and flat round. To the half drilled pearl beads, the string method is just adding a drop of glue into the hole, and slide onto an earring post or pendant setting. Everyone knows the stringing method of full drilled beads. No matter what shapes they are, pearl beads are versatile for jewelry making.

Shell Pearl Beads Strands, Grade "A", Polished

Half drilled beads are perfect to be drops or pendants for earrings and necklaces. Choose a pair of simple sterling silver or gold earring hooks to add two round white half drilled pearl beads if your mother like simple but classic jewelry. Use a pair of earring hooks with special design, such as branches, leaves, flowers and so on, to add pearls with any color to create a pair of fashion earrings. Many jewelry makers also like to use these beads to create earring studs in different effects—fashion, elegant, cute and etc, which depends on the colors, shapes and designs for both pearls and metal studs.

If you have created a pair of pearl beads earrings for your mother, why not create one more pearl necklace which is matched with the earrings. You can choose half drilled pearl bead and glue it on a pendant setting as a necklace pendant. You can also use wrapping skill to wrap some full drilled pearl beads as one of a kind necklace pendant. No matter what kind of pearl necklace you want to create, it will be unique and full with your love to your mom.

Shell Pearl Beads Strands, Polished

Mother’s Day is not too far. Purchase some quality drilled pearl beads to create your unique jewelry gifts for your mom. Purchase natural freshwater pearl beads won’t break your bank as long as you find a reliable supplier, like PandaHall.com.

Jewelry Making Ideas with Shell Beads

Shell beads come in many traditional shapes and sizes, including flat round, oval, rectangle, flower, square, round, rondelle, drop, heart, star and many others. These beads are available in various colors and styles. Shell beads are widely used in making necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and many other fashion decorations. You can also find them available in variety of sizes, from 1-3mmto39mm. You can easily find what size, color, and shape you need for your designs.

Colorful Shell Chips Strands, Dyed, Multicolor

Jewelry Making Ideas with Shell Beads

Making jewelry is not such a difficult thing as some people think. To beginners of jewelry making, make a stringing bracelet is the easiest jewelry design. Spring is colorful and romantic season. Women like shell beads very much, and pink is a romantic color to them, so why not try to make a pink shell pearl beads bracelet for your girl? Prepare 15pcs12mmpink shell pearl beads and elastic cord. Cut off the elastic cord with a suitable length. String all the shell beads on the cord, and make a knot. In order to let the bracelet look clear, you can hide the knot into the hole of beads. A lovely, romantic pink shell pearl stretch bracelet is finished. You can also string the beads on the cord first, and cut off it to make a knot after all the beads are stringed. It is very easy, isn’t it?

Shell Pearl Stretch Bracelets, Valentine Jewelry Supplies

Pandora Jewelry is still very hot today. Pandora style (European style) shell beads jewelry is women’s favorite. To make a lovely Pandora style shell beads bracelet, you can prepare 6pcs Pandora style shell beads in pink, yellow, read, green, white and blue, a pink rose hanging pendant, 6pcs Pandora style stop beads in different style or shapes, and a silver Pandora style bracelet. Twist the clasp of bracelet off, string these beads and pendant as a stop bead, a shell bead, a stop bead. Make sure to add the rose hanging pendant at the middle place of this bracelet and the last one is a stop bead. Close the clasp, a colorful, lovely Pandora style shell beads bracelet is finished.

European Style Bracelets, with Shell Beads and Tibetan Silver Beads

You can also choose some beautiful flower shell beads to make a bracelet. These flower beads can be produced in different colors and sizes, and these bracelets will be elegant but affordable. As shell beads are available in various colors, shapes and sizes, and they can be used both singly and combined with other jewelry beads, purchase some to make your own personality jewelries.

Using Pearl Beads to Create Timeless Jewelry

Want to make timeless, elegant and breathtaking jewelry? Usingpearl beads as beading staple is a great ideal. The amazing luster and mirror-like finish of pearls have made them a symbol of wealth and sophistication throughout history.

Natural Cultured Freshwater Pearl Beads

From classic elegance to contemporary style, pearls express fashions in a variety of ways. In the old days, pearl beads jewelry is the precious jewelry for nobles, and later for both nobles and rich men. Today, each woman is able to own hers, as more and more freshwater pearl beads are produced in many places around the world. Freshwater pearl beads are not sea pearl beads but are natural pearl beads indeed. They have amazing luster and mirror-like finish as sea pearl beads, but much cheaper. In addition, available in a variety of colors is another advantage of freshwater pearl beads. They also come in a myriad of shapes, such as round, semi-round, symmetrical, stick, rice, potato, coin, drop, button, chip, oval, rectangle, lentil and many others. Sizes from1mmto39mm, even more than40mmare easily can be found. Different shapes, colors and sizes will help you create different style and/or effects timeless jewelry, no matter you create with pearl beads only or mix and match them with other jewelry beads, for example, glass beads, crystal beads, metal beads and so on. Jewelry materials may is limited, but you still can create amazing and timeless jewelry endlessly as long as your imagination is unlimited.

Grade "A" Pearl Strands Mix, Polished, Rice

In contemporary society, people still think pearl is the “jewelry of health and longevity” and a symbol of wealth and beauty that is why pearl beads jewelry are loved so deeply by women, especially by the old women. Pearl beads are widely used in jewelry making—necklace making, bracelet making, earring making, ring making and many other crafts making. Today, pearl beads become a beading staple and jewelry favorite by many jewelry makers for pearl beads’ opulent, admirable beauty and natural splendor.

Grade "A" Freshwater Pearl Strands

Pearl beads are sold as loose beads or strand beads on jewelry market. There are several famous breeding bases of freshwater pearl beads around the world, and one of them isChina.Chinafreshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads are world-renowned, for Chinese have well-seasoned traditional technology and professional knowledge about how to breed freshwater beads, that is why so many foreign countries wholesale them fromChina. Finding a good supplier is the main key of doing successful business. As a leading exporter and a federation ofChinabeads, PandaHall.com has the ability to offer quality pearl beads as well as other jewelry beads and findings for both company business and individual business at much lower wholesale prices.

Purchase Freshwater Beads to Create Stunning Jewelry

Freshwater beads contain freshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads. For hundreds of years, the only people who wore pearls were royalty and nobles, and later, the fabulously wealthy who could afford them. Today, the good news is that you don’t have to spend a small fortune to get beautiful pearls to use in your bead-weaving and jewelry making projects.

About the freshwater pearl beads, they are the result of irritation in the soft tissue of a mollusk. Slimy water creatures aside, pearls are as beautiful and fascinating as any gemstone that many people have even seen, and certainly hold more allure for some people than other types of semi-precious beads. Freshwater pearl beads are now available in dozens of different shapes beyond the traditional round and off-round. Freshwater shell beads come in various shapes and are dyed in different colors too. No matter what kind of freshwater beads you would like to get, you will easily find them from a large jewelry beads wholesaler such as PandaHall.

Here I would like to share some simple but stunning, elegant jewelry designs of freshwater beads with you.

Natural Freshwater Pearl Beads Strands

Pearl Drop Earrings

This design is very suitable for beginners.

Materials: 2 white freshwater pearl beads; 2 silver beads; 2 closed oval links of chains; 2 sterling silver headpins; 2 earring hooks.

Steps: Slide each bead onto a headpin, and make a closed wire loop at the top. At the top of the last bead, using round nose pliers to create a loop in the wire, and slide the oval chain link onto the loop before closing the loop and fastening the beads to the link. Using your pliers to open the loop at the bottom of your earring hook and slide your link chain onto the earring. Close the loop and your earring is completed. Repeat for the second one. A pair of simple, but elegant freshwater pearl beads earrings are finished.

Glass Pearl Earrings, with Glass Beads and Brass Earring Hooks

Freshwater Shell Bracelets

Materials: 5 creamy freshwater shell flower beads (have two holes at edges); 10pcs rhinestone links; 1 iron lobster claw clasp; 1 strand of extended chain.

Steps: Adding rhinestone links on each hole of flower beads (10pcs rhinestone links for 5 flower beads). Attaching two rhinestone links from two individual flower beads on the lobster claw clasp and then linking other rhinestone links together to make a circle. The last step is to add the extended chain to the jump ring of lobster claw clasp. A elegant bracelet is finished. You can also use some jump rings to link the rhinestone links together.

Freshwater Shell Bracelets, Rhinestone

They are very stunning and elegant, but simple to make, right? You can also have a look at PandaHall’s Official Facebook if you would like to get more inspirations and ideas about jewelry making. Just purchase some jewelry beads and findings to make your own gorgeous jewelry.

Wholesale Quality Freshwater Beads from China

Today, according to the growing up of consciousness of protecting environment, more and more people prefer to wear freshwater beads jewelry. About the freshwater beads, they include freshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads.

Erose Freshwater Shell Beads Strands

Pearls are one of the earliest gemstones found by prehistoric man, most likely along the coastline ofIndia. They have been used for personal adornment and coveted by people throughout the globe for thousands of years. Ancient myths tell of pearls being formed when oysters opened their shells, rose to the water’s surface and were seeded by the early morning rays of sunlight and drops of dew. The high quality natural saltwater pearl beads are very beautiful and jewelry made by those beads has high collection value that is why so many people like wearing pearl beads jewelry and collecting them.

Shell Beads Strands, Square

And now, more and more people pay more attention to protect environment and biological chain, they put their eyes on cultured freshwater pearl beads. AndChinais the main base of producing quality freshwater beads. Many Chinese farmers are experts in culturing freshwater beads. Freshwater pearl beads are found or cultured in mussels or oysters in rivers, lakes or ponds and tend to be more irregular in shape and more varied in color than saltwater pearls. And just because their polytrope, the cultured freshwater pearl beads with similar shape, size and lustre are very expensive too. Freshwater pearl beads’ prices are lower than saltwater pearl beads which don’t necessarily mean low quality. In fact, some high quality freshwater pearls are very valuable.

Grade "A" Freshwater Pearl Strands

When people changed their source of getting pearl beads, they didn’t ignore the new source of shell beads. On today’s fashion jewelry market, more and more freshwater shell beads turn up, and their quantity and demands are growing speedily. No doubt that freshwater shell beads are found or cultured in rivers, lakes or ponds too. Apart from many natural freshwater shells inChina, she also has many large cultivated bases for freshwater shell. Seasoned workers can make those freshwater shells into jewelry beads in different shapes and sizes, and dye them in different colors. Made from cultured freshwater shell beads through cutting, drilling, polishing and dying process, those shell beads give a natural subtle luster. Some freshwater shell beads even are painted with many different beautiful pictures or patterns. Those fancy printing shell beads have a big effect in our daily life. They will give others a deep impression once you wear jewelry created with printing freshwater shell beads.

Grade "A" Freshwater Pearl Strands

If you want to wholesale freshwater beads, both freshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads, I would like to suggest you to wholesale them fromChina. Reasons are above. And I would like to recommend PandaHall.com—a leading China beads, findings and gems online wholesaler to you, for I have purchased from it for more than 7 years, and I was always satisfied with them—both its items and customer service. And will continue.

Shell Beads Are Fantastic for Jewelry Making

Shell shapes like the wings of an angel, hiding deep in the ocean waiting people to find out its beauty therefore shell beads are widely used in shell jewelry making. Have you ever distressed about presenting gift to your friends? No need to distress anymore. Try to make handmade shell beads jewelry to say how much they mean to you.

Handmade Shell Beads, AB Color

In ancient ages, people have used shell beads to make decorations already. In a sense, shell beads stand for a culture. Shell beads jewelry and other forms of personal decoration were one of the most important expressions of early human culture. And the ancient shell beads are worth to collect. Therefore, many people like the vintage style shell beads very much.

Shell Beads Strands, Shuttle, Multicolor

Glittering with the unique charm of ocean, shell beads attach a tropical and exotic beauty and vitality to you when wearing them. Shell beads look especially fantastic with various kinds of dresses, bringing out the lively and nifty side of you. Apart from natural sea shell beads, there are many natural freshwater shell beads on the market today. On the market, shell beads come in different kinds and are produced combined with other materials to create new items. They are good accessories for jewelry making.

Handmade Shell Beads Strands, Rhombus

Mother of pearl shell beads, one popular shell beads, are made from the inner shell layer of pearl oyster or fresh water pearl mussel shell. Mother of Peal shell beads come in many shapes and sizes for example free form, nuggets, cube, flat rounds, flat squares and many other interesting beading shapes. Spiral shell beads retain vivid natural shapes and dyed in hot colors, give theme design a lighthearted style. It can mix with other beads to make different designs. They are popular for jewelry accessory like necklaces, bracelets and earrings. While, please notice that due to some of those beads are dyed, colors may be vary slightly.

Erose Shell Beads Strands, Multicolor

Shell beads can easily be purchased from online store if you would like to have a variety of selection. If you have any question about the shell beads, you’d better to contact with the owner to know them clearly before you purchase them. I purchase my shell beads from PandaHall.com—a leadingChinabeads and findings wholesaler for more then 7 years. I will send email to its customer service team if I have any question about shell beads and other jewelry supplies at any time. And they always give me the satisfied answers very fast. The beads I received are always what I expected. In addition, its items are really at the most reasonable prices. For those reasons, I have become its customers for more than 7 year. If you would like to make gorgeous jewelry gifts, purchase some shell beads to try.

Create Your Own Jewelry with Shell Beads

Everyone wants to have her/his own handmade jewelry but always worried about what kind of jewelry should be made and what materials they should have. You are no exception, right? If yes, why not try to create your own jewelry with shell beads?

Spiral Shell Beads, Dyed, Sienna

Shell beads with their tropical feeling are a well-known component in jewelry producing. Shells are normally gathered utilizing the primitive way of diving under water and harvesting them. Most shells are harvested mainly for food, the outside shell us then cleaned, cut and formed into shell beads and shell pendants. You can find the most variety of shells created into beads and elements in a number of offline and on the internet jewelry shops.

Erose Freshwater Shell Beads Strands

Shell beads have lengthy been used for personal ornaments and jewelry making, as well as many other kinds of arts and crafts. Today, they are much popular than before. There are many kinds of shell beads used in jewelry making now, such as resin shell beads, giant clam shells, freshwater shell, sea shells, paua shells, mother of pearl shells and so on. Some shell beads with natural colors, and others are dyed. The brilliant colors and patterns in shell beads come from the naturally occurring pigments in seashells and the shells of some land snails. They are widely used in making necklaces, bracelets, earrings and ankles.

Handmade Shell Beads, AB Color

Shell beads can be used singly to make jewelry, and also can be mixed and matched with other jewelry beads together. You can use them freely to make any style you like, for they are very versatile. I have purchased some shell beads, crystal beads, glass beads and some jewelry findings from PandaHall.com last month. And that order arrived so fast which is a little beyond of my expectation. I really very pleased with my order. So when I received the email from its customer service team, I replied that:” I am very pleased and impressed with your quality items and professional customer service. I definitely will be your loyal customer.” When I saw those beautiful items, I had a design inspiration in my mind, and I put it into action the next day. I used some light blue shell beads, blueish crystal beads, two large light green glass heart beads, some gold spacer beads, ball pins, several jump rings and a toggle clasps made a necklace.

The stunning necklace wouldn’t look out of place at an expensive jewelers, yet it is so easy to make and affordable too. Are you interested in it? Just have a try to make yours.

Wholesale Affordable Shell Beads to Improve Summer Sales

Summer is a fantastic season for wearing jewelry. And the shell beads jewelry pieces are the best pieces to express the passion and happiness of summer and on the beach.

Natural Shell Beads, Multicolor

In ancient ages, people have used shell beads to make decorations already. In a sense, shell beads stand for a culture. Shell beads jewelry and other forms of personal decoration were one of the most important expressions of early human culture. And the ancient shell beads are worth to collect. Therefore, many people like the vintage style shell beads very much.

Shell Beads Strands, Rectangle

Today, shell beads are highly popular in the fashion jewelry market because of their attractive colors, shapes which give them a unique appeal. The popular shapes include flat round, oval, rectangle, square, flower, round, donut, teardrop and etc. They are just perfect to be used as embellishments on garments and different kinds of jewelry pieces, such as necklace, anklet, earrings, bracelet, belts, pendant and so on. Shell beads are available in various shapes, sizes and colors. They are considered as one of the most lustrous and luxurious material used for jewelry making, especially for summer jewelry pieces. Nowadays, more and more people prefer to close to the nature and enjoy the nature. Shell beads are natural products which express the nature very well, especially in summer, for they are the symbol of sea beach—a wonderful place to enjoy summer. These beads lend a touch of tropics and beach to all designs of beaded jewelry. So shell beads jewelry has become the most popular beach jewelry.

Shell Beads Strands, Multicolor

As shell beads jewelry is more and more popular now, why not grab this opportunity to improve your summer sales if you are a jewelry businessman? No matter you retail them to jewelry makers or make shell beads jewelry for selling, wholesale affordable quality shell beads is a good method.

Shell Beads Strands, Printed

Well, after you realized this opportunity, the next thing you need to do is to search a reliable supplier who can offer you quality shell beads at competitive prices. That is quite important if you want to improve your sales and win in such a fierce competition of jewelry industry. PandaHall.com is an ideal online market of jewelry beads, findings and gems. As a leader of China beads wholesalers, it has a wide range of selection for various jewelry supplies. One-stop shopping service can be enjoyed here. Don’t miss it, and check it if you are interested.