Discover what kind and how Freshwater Pearls are produced by Pearl Farms.

Be it a pearl necklace, a pearl bracelet, a pair of pearl earrings, or a pearl ring, any kind of pearl jewelry that is made in fresh water such as lakes, rivers etc. are called freshwater pearl jewelry.

We own freshwater pearl farms in the Philippines, where the best quality freshwater pearls are produced and sold worldwide.

We have any size, any shape from coin pearls to biwa pearls to keshi, cornflake, teardrop, rice or baroque pearls..

We can process and culture specific color. It will only take us 8 weeks.

What are freshwater and salt water pearls?

Freshwater pearls are from freshwater while saltwater pearls are from saltwater. The process of natural freshwater pearls occurring is pretty much the same as that of saltwater pearls, except ones occur in mussels and the other in oysters.

The catalyst inserted to the oyster is just a very tiny piece of another oyster's mantle tissue instead of shell beads. This foreign material would be entered into a mussel, and to reduce and resist the irritation, the mollusk coats the intruder with the same secretion it uses for shell-building, nacre.

Freshwater pearls are totally different from any of other gemstones. They are similar to saltwater pearls in terms of both of them are made of nature, but difference occurs as freshwater pearls are almost seedless, quite similar to the wild natural pearl. A variety of factors determine shapes and quality of pearls such as the raising of infant oyster, the health of oyster itself, ingredients in the water, water temperature, the inserting skill of workers, fertilization, diseases prevention, etc.

How freshwater pearls are cultured?

To culture freshwater pearls, workers would slightly open mussels shells, cut small slits into the mantle tissue inside both shells, and insert small pieces of live mantle tissue from another mussel into those slits. In freshwater mussels that insertion alone is sufficient to start nacre production.

Pearls are composed entirely of nacre, just like their natural freshwater and natural saltwater counterparts.

Today,one of the best and largest selection of pearls are from Noubikko collection, because modern technology and cutting edge techniques have been used for processing pearls in cleaning and drilling to ensure the best quality of transparence and luster of pearls. All done by hand.

Freshwater cultured pearls and natural pearls

The least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today "rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found."

The shapes, luster, and colors often match the best natural pearl quality. Sometime even surpass it. Certainly the new orange and peach-colored pearls are unique. Some experts sent the resulting freshwater pearls to a gem lab and received a report identifying them as "naturals."

"If pearl farmers can grow cultured pearls that test as naturals, then our fresh water pearl customers are getting the big bonus."