The stunning ‘new’ of the show were AAA clean pearls in deep shades of amethyst, purples, and pinks. All natural colours. These pearls have a bead inside and take three to four years to grow a good thick layer of nacre. The purple colours are the result of a little bit of mutation mixed with some very clever selective breeding and nucleation by farmers.<\/p>\n
![\"ming](\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mings.jpeg\")
<\/a>Stunning bead nucleated pearls<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a>This strand is a pinky purple. It’s the one which spoke to me the moment I saw it!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Amethyst purple strand from Jack Lynch of Sea Hunt Pearls<\/p><\/div>\n
Pearls with such rich natural colours are new this harvest and quite stunning.<\/p>\n
Ripples<\/strong><\/p>\n Plenty of really good ripples around, as well as hundreds of strands of pallid spotty ones – those are the ones which turn up on the usual websites.<\/p>\n Deep pinks and golds ripples. Not huge but great lustre<\/p><\/div>\n Small -11mm to 12mm- round ripples. Again, great lustre and colour<\/p><\/div>\n Mings<\/strong><\/p>\n I found two outstanding Ming strands on my last day at the show. These are dyed, yes, but the size, surface quality and lustre make them dramatic strands and potentially pretty knock-out necklaces<\/p>\n Deep silver grey Ming strand, sizes 11.8mm to 16.8 mm<\/p><\/div>\n The colour of this strand is a deep silver grey, with a faint blush of pink. The surface isn’t clean but about half the pearls are metallic and the rest are close to metallic.<\/p>\n Very rich gold Ming pearl strand. The pearls are 12.1mm to 15,6mm<\/p><\/div>\n The gold strand is also not perfectly clean, there are minor surface marks but again, there is a lot of metallic lustre<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>