Sunday, September 30, 2007

Wholesale Keshi pearls

Keshi pearls or popularly known as cornflakes pearls are very much in demand these days. These pearls are called as Cornflakes pearls due to their very unusual shape. Keshi pearls are very unique due to their different methods of formation. These pearls are also called Poppy seed pearls (keshi means poppy seeds in Japanese).

Keshi pearls are formed before development of pearl oyster spits out the nucleus or nucleus breaks and forms into two pearl sacs of circles of nacre without nucleus. In wholesale markets Keshi pearls are available in many shapes and sizes, these pearls are rare therefore usually cost more since oysters are re-nucleated to prohibit formation of Keshi pearls.

These Keshi pearls are very popular due to its high luster and unique orientation they are very desirable for making fancy jewelry. In a boutique store, a keshi pearl necklace can easily cost $400 and up. Therefore quite a lot jewelry designers are turning to wholesalers who wholesale keshi pearls on line for affordable prices because they usually can get the rock bottom prices for they are sold directly from pearl farsm. These pearls are available in many different sizes. You can also have keshi pearls to be processed in almost all possible colors by http://www.orientalpearls.net/. They have the ability to process your pearls in any color.

White, green, silver, lavender, purple, grey are some colors to choose from. In general Keshi pearls available on temporary strands are 8mm to 10mm in size. These pearls are usually drilled in center but you can have them drilled anywhere you want. These freshwater keshi pearls are usually temporarily strung on loose strands. Wholesale pearls of same size and shape are very difficult to find as keshi pearls don’t have any uniform size. If you are buying these pearls from wholesaler then you can have choice of color, shape and size as per your demand.

Usually keshi pearls are very small in size but rarely some large size pearls are available in wholesale market. These are large in size and also are very thin. Since they are hard to come by, they usually cost a lot more than smaller ones.

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