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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kyratango, post: 2753147, member: 5006&quot;]Imitation! Made of fish scales powder, mixed with resin, applied in several layers and buffed.</p><p>From there:</p><p><a href="https://www.abc-mallorca.com/history-of-mallorcan-pearls/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abc-mallorca.com/history-of-mallorcan-pearls/" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc-mallorca.com/history-of-mallorcan-pearls/</a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins">To possess <b>genuine pearls</b> was the privilege of the <b>rich and powerful</b> until well into the 19th century. A drop from a pearl oyster was (and still is) <b>rare and valuable</b>, making it a very desirable object. In those days pearls were not only used for necklaces, bracelets, brooches and rings, but more frequently than today, they were twisted into the hair, sewn onto clothes, hats, oriental turbans and gowns for decoration or were used as buttons. In the <b>Middle Ages</b> they adorned magnificent book covers, reliquaries and royal caskets. In short, everything that was to be enhanced in spiritual value, social prestige, or aesthetic appeal was done so with pearl.</font></span></span></p><p><font size="5"><b><span style="color: rgb(184, 110, 51)"><span style="font-size: 20px"><font face="Merriweather">The tradition of pearl-making on Mallorca</font></span></span></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins"><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><img src="https://wp.abc-mallorca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pearls-05.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins">In view of the price of pearls, people at that time sought affordable alternatives. In the 17th century a rosary manufacturer from <b>Paris</b> discovered that the sticky material on fish scales could be used to coat glass beads. This gave them a certain pearly shimmer. Then, in the 19th century the <b>Japanese</b> invented the <b>cultured pearl</b> bringing an end to the upper-class exclusivity of pearl jewellery. However, for many the <b>breakthrough for pearls</b> as reasonably priced jewellery came about 100 years ago and the demand for pearls increased rapidly in the European capitals. Eduard Hugo Heusch, a <b>German engineer</b> who had emigrated to France, worked in Paris on a process to manufacture <b>artificial pearls</b> and eventually founded a company that he later transferred to <b>Manacor</b> in <b>Mallorca</b> to produce his &#039;<b>Majórica</b>&#039; pearls.</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins"><br /></font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins">Making process:</font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins"><br /></font></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60)"><span style="font-size: 17px"><font face="Poppins">[MEDIA=youtube]pQC7mrZ1cuE[/MEDIA]</font></span></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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