Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048

Crafted in 9ct white gold, single round black cultured pearls with a crescent of sparkling white diamonds.

A unusual design that you will love to wear.

These cultured pearls, sometimes referred to as black pearls, actually have a wide colour range. They might be grey, black or brown, and they can have blue, green, purple or pink overtones.

Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048.

The difference between cultured pearls and natural pearls.

Natural Pearls.

With a natural pearl when an irritant gets inside the shell of the mollusc without any help of human intervention, it is called natural. These natural pearls are very rare and found mostly in antique jewellery, as diving for natural pearls in open water is a dangerous profession and is almost obsolete now days, having said that pearl diving in Ohio & Tennessee rivers in America still exists today, mainly in my opinion as a gimmick to help boost the tourist industry.

Cultured pearls.

With cultured pearls such as these Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings are virtually the same in as much as they are still made by the mollusc but with human intervention a skilled technician takes a mantle tissue from another mollusc of the same species and inserts it with a shell bead as the irritant then tissue grows around it secreting nacre onto the bead which eventually forms a pearl. It take at least six months for a pearl to form but most pearls are cultivated for at least a year for it to grow to a useable size, the longer a pearl is cultivated, the better chance of harvesting a larger and better quality pearl in general the longer the cultivation the bigger the pearl, which is why larger pearls are more expensive.

Some people say oh cultured pearls are not as good as Natural pearls, but as in people there are good and bad, in both natural and cultured pearls. In my opinion the thing to look for that generally makes a nice pearl of any sort, is a nice round shape without or with as little blemishes as possible with a nice smooth lustre. In most cases the more blemishes and the more misshapen a pearl the cheaper it should be.

Kendal Black Pearl Stud-Earrings ES00048.

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Origin of the Symbol
The origin of the yin-yang symbol is found in the ancient Chinese time-keeping system of using a pole to measure the changing lengths of shadows over the solar year, and invented in China at least as long ago as 600 BC. In fact, some have suggested that the yin-yang symbol closely approximates a graphical representation of the daily change of a pole’s shadow length during the year. Yang begins at the winter solstice and indicates the beginning of the period when daylight dominates over darkness and thus is associated with the sun. The yin begins at the summer solstice and represents the dominance of darkness over daylight and is associated with the moon.

Yin-yang also represents the observation of the shadow of the earth on the moon, and the record of the position of the Big Dipper constellation through the year. These observations make up the four points of the compass: the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the direction of the shortest shadow measured is south, and at night, the pole star points north.

Thus, yin and yang are fundamentally connected with the annual cycle of the earth around the sun and the resulting four seasons.

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