Initial commercial freshwater pearl crops appeared in the 1930s ... pearls if the roundest examples are nacre-coated shell beads instead? How will such new products be positioned in the market?

The memory wire wrap bracelets fit everyone. I’ve chosen to make this memory wire bracelet with vintage pearl beads that date ...

Those pearl supplies continued into the 1800s ... Whereas Nishikawa nucleated with silver and gold beads, Mikimoto experimented with everything from glass to lead to clay to wood.