Indonesia South Sea Pearls

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The world Indonesia is famous for its pearls. Yet they are famous for the Philippines. Black pearls from Tahiti and bring. It grows in the southern seas this beauty. Although often sell pearls Japanese firms - they are massively buying products pearl farms, conduct screening and selection of pearls. Then stained, toung polished and coated with a special toung solution. The price of pearls with rises significantly. But it seems to me, is such a matched in size and quality pearls are some ... well, adult women, he emphasizes not their beauty and age. Pearls in Indonesia is not processed in any way - it does not bleach, do not change its color artificially, not polished - it is precisely this, which came into existence. And this, in my opinion, is its charm.
Indonesia South Sea Pearls
On the island of Banda Neira (which is in the Banda Sea) runs a small factory on the cultivation of pearls. We make our way through the narrow perch to a wooden platform where actually working under the canopy and all this "factory" - a few local girls on the face labeled with some white stripes. That these bands are - I forgot to ask.
Technology of production of pearls seems pretty toung simple. Reveal the sink, put a piece into its same, and closed, toung after which the shell is folded into the grid and is lowered into the sea. Periodically they take out of the sea, clear of algae to the sink and breathe better off, and back ... That's all. Lombok too many of these farms, but as they say, there is too put into large plastic balls, which covers the pearl shell, but it is less so these pearls shine worse and weigh less. Namely, shape, luster and weight of pearls determine its price.
If you lift the sink, then its "lips" shows what color is inside the pearl - white, pink, gold or black. Experts distinguish more than a hundred toung shades of pearls toung from silver - the most common to the rarest - teal (this is found only in Indonesia). Pearls are soft pink color is produced off the coast of India, yellowish - about Sri Lanka, reddish-brown and black - in Mexico, white and silvery-white - in Australia, in the Bahamas - light pink pearls in California - pink, dark brown and black, in the Persian Gulf - a soft cream. It is written in the popular directories. But local guide explained a little differently, based on their experiences. toung "Men's shell," as he explained, produce white pearls (for some reason he used the term sperm ), and the whole color pearl shell produce toung female "sex."
It is believed that pearls benefits from a number of diseases: strengthens the heart, especially when you hold the pearl in the mouth, soothes pain, relieves palpitation, arrhythmia, enhances sexual sensitivity, stimulates sexual activity. It helps in case of poisoning and diseases toung of the brain, banishes melancholy, cures eye diseases and pernicious anemia, toung cleanses the blood. Pearls from the craziness protects, treats hemorrhoids, dysentery, etc.
This farm produces from 50 to 70 kilograms of pearls per year. Each sink is used up to three times on a single pearl cultivation requires at least a year. All this takes away pearls host to Java and there carefully selects it. At the very pearl farm can not see - but I bought a small necklace local city souvenir shops of rusty old castles and seashells. toung Beautiful heavy not very smooth pearl pleasure to hold in your hands and even to touch. Perhaps they do contribute pacification and heal from the craziness. Will only hold them in your mouth - if good, then later tell.
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