{"id":323,"date":"2013-09-06T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2013-09-15T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:20:49","slug":"day-three-metallic-earring-pearls-strands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/pearlescence\/day-three-metallic-earring-pearls-strands\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Three – Metallic Earring Pairs and More Strands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day Three. I think one of my favourite things to do is finding pairs. It’s a task which can’t be hurried. You have a swathe of pearls before you. From hundreds of pearls you first select the ones you want – by colour and lustre.<\/p>\n

You might end up with 20 from 500 which are themselves all AAA grade pearls. Further scrutiny rejects two or three more as not metallic enough (!)<\/p>\n

And then I try out matches by eye and trial and error until I’m happy. And I’m fussy about matching and getting fussier. It’s very satisfying (or conversely irritating when you have a great pearl but you can’t find a match for it: is that pearl good enough to be a pendant?)<\/p>\n

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White metallic big drop pearls (please excuse the strobe effect from the lights)<\/p><\/div>\n

Matching white drops sounds like a pretty straightforward job, for example, but it isn’t. Shape can be drip, drop of barrel..the white can be white white, or a bit pink or a bit silver, the metallic ‘fish-eye’ can be a different shape or intensity..or simply one pearl will be bigger than the other.<\/p>\n

And today I played with fireballs too! You have to allow some degree of laxity in the match – there will be a whole head between the pearls, although some customers still demand a perfect match from such a freeform.<\/p>\n

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First and second stages of selection for fireballs from a huge bag of them<\/p><\/div>\n

I also fell to temptation from some white and coloured strands – including some incredibly colourful dyed peacock blacks -as well as a routine re-stock with 200 strands of A+ grade white 3mm roundish pearls.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow – one 15mm+ white undrilled or half drilled perfect pearl for a ring, three big frilly purple fireballs and a couple of strands of dark, milk and white chocolate Tahitians keep calling me..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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