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My high school teacher gave me a 5-page essay on the colors of pearls and their meanings. I have looked EVERYWHERE for information but every single site gives the same 1-sentence worth of information!!

I only need the symbolic meanings.

Answer 1

If you need symbolic meanings, the article below is in this site: http://www.sfheart.com/color_legends.html
The Colors of Pearls
While there is no universal agreement on what color a perfect pearl should be, some colors are rarer or considered more attractive and desirable than others.
White: Wisdom and Purity...In ancient Greek, pearl meant "perfect purity" and to Romans, "sweetness and pleasure." Astrologers found wisdom in the white luminosity of the moon and stars that they could not find on earth.
Closely associated in ancient mythology with spiritual motivation. A commonly held believe also conferred upon them the power of great virility. moon, the sun and the heaven in general, the pale luster and aquatic origins of pearls identified them most strongly with the moon, a symbol of purity, virginity and solitude

The ancient Greeks believed pearls should be a part of the wedding. They thought pearls would bring love and all guests of the wedding were adorned in pearls. Pearls were sacred wedding gems given as gifts and the word “pearl” became highly associated with “love.”

Cream: Success... After Aphrodite had stepped from the waters, a young prince who had remained hidden, not daring to speak, gathered the foam that trailed behind her, frothy as cream. He wreathed it about his head and from that moment good fortune was his.
Some historians have argued that the human obsession with pearls sprang not from a lust for riches

Pearls are part of the description of Paradise in the Koran, which says: "The stones are pearls and jacinths; the fruits of the trees are pearls and emeralds; and each person admitted to the delights of the celestial kingdom is provided with a tent of pearls, jacinths, and emeralds; is crowned with pearls of incomparable luster, and is attended by beautiful maidens resembling hidden pearls."

Peach: Health... The gods once gathered in a great conclave to find which fruit would be most beneficial to their health. They ordered young maidens to bring fruits from every corner of the earth. After all the fruits were brought, each was crushed into a nectar and placed in huge goblets from which the gods drank. When the nectar had been drained from each goblet, the fruit they chose above all others was the peach.
Some cultures such as the Chinese have used pearls medically to treat a variety of ailments - indigestion, fever, heart disease. Today, calcium carbonate, the main component of pearls, is used as an antacid and a dietary supplement.

A Native American princess presented Hernando de Soto with gifts of animal skins, cloth, copper, and freshwater pearls. Colonizers from Spain, France, and England all found native tribes using pearls as jewelry and for trade. Once the colonial powers discovered the sheer volume of pearls available in America's rivers, pearls became one of the chief products sent from the colonies back to Europe.

Golden: Wealth...Yellow is the color of the life- sustaining sun and of gold, the symbol of wealth. Golden brightness is the natural color of enlightenment and the intellect. It is cheerful and radiates warmth. The Chinese adopted yellow and golden as their imperial hue. Gold and Black: Also for prosperity.

Natural Pearls come is many other colors besides the colors above. Pearls can also be silvery white, pink, rose, salmon, red, copper, bronze, brown, purple, green, and blue.

Lavender: Love...Purple has long reflected royalty and wealth. Lavender or violet traditionally symbolizes spirituality and is linked with our deeper feelings. Light violet is interpreted as sensuality. Tibetan monks were said to possess a "seduction pearl" that caused any woman caught in its rays to become ravenous for love, so it is not surprising that pearls were prescribed as a love potion. Pink:Works especially for the heart. Pearls are best without other gems.

There is a legend that the pearl oyster, Te Ufi was offered to man by Oro, the god of peace and fertility, who came down to earth on a rainbow. Another version of the legend is that Oro offered the pearl to the beautiful princess of Bora Bora as a sign of his eternal love.

Black Tahitian pearls are produced by the black-lipped oyster (Pinctada margaritifera) in the islands of French Polynesia.
The finest black pearls have a green overtone that is called "peacock green". A solid black pearl with no overtone is considered undesirable and may cost as much as 50% less than one of similar quality with green overtones.

If you need physical meaning/cause of color, try:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~eps2/wisc/pbuy.html

Answer 2

Sounds like she wants you to think outside-the-box.

Contact a jeweler or go online to a pearl jeweler site. Should give you more information.

Also, you might try www.firemountaingems.com. Here's a link with them on the pearls you can try: http://www.firemountaingems.com/pearls.asp

They sell gems and stones to make costume jewelry. They sell pearls as well. Many of their pages will tell you where the gem/pearl comes from or if it has any meaning. There are other gemstone or bead sites as well.

Answer 3

Pearls symbolize the best within us. Honesty, Purity , Wisdom and Integrity. They remind us to walk with Dignity. Have you ever seen a woman wearing Pearls acting in an undignified manner? Did you have the oddest feeling? That's because they just don't mix. Pearls not only provide a mirror in which to see ourselves, but give us insight into how we appear to others.

Pearls can stimulate your femininity and help with self acceptance. They lift your spirits and make you feel calm and beautiful. When have you not felt Ultra feminine when wearing pearls?

The ragged, rough grain of sand, transformed over time slowly growing into a object of great value and beauty. With it's humble beginnings, Pearls symbolize innocence and a pure heart, and help us get in touch with the simple honest things of life.

White: Symbol of pure heart and mind; innocence, faith.
Gold and Black: Also for prosperity.
Pink: Works especially with the heart Chakra.
Physical:
For solar plexus Chakra (digestion, stomach, immunity) and emotional stress.


Keywords:
Purity, honesty, innocence and integrity, concentration, focus, meditation, serenity, tranquility and wisdom.

Answer 4

The meaning? In what context? Is it the meaning as different types of impurities or different mullusks (unsure of spelling) create different colored pearls. Or do you mean that the different colors of pearls mean something different when given to a person, like roses.

You may want to clarify a little.

Answer 5

Judging from the prices of "black pearls," pearl connoisseurs find dark gray very appealing. In April 1990, for example, a single strand of 27 black pearls was sold for $880,000 at Sotheby's in New York. This was more than $32,000 per pearl. Black pearls are not necessarily black. More often than not they range from a medium to very dark gray.

Answer 6

Well I know precious stones have different meanings, never heard of pearls having meanings and thought they were all naturally 'pearl' coloured - of course there is a black pearl. Have you tried jewellers websites?

Answer 7

Real pearls only come naturally in two colors, white(or some shade thereof) and black.

Answer 8

use wikipedia or goolge and type in keywords every site should not give the same information

Answer 9

For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation).

Strand of akoya pearls from China
Pearl farm, Seram, IndonesiaA pearl is a hard, rounded object produced by certain animals, primarily mollusks such as oysters. Pearls can be used in jewelry and also crushed in cosmetics or paint formulations. Pearl is valued as a gemstone and is cultivated or harvested for jewelry.

Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks. As a response to an irritant inside its shell, the mollusk will deposit layers of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of the minerals aragonite or calcite (both crystalline forms of calcium carbonate) held together by an organic horn-like compound called conchiolin.This combination of calcium carbonate and conchiolin is called nacre, or as most know it, mother-of-pearl. The commonly held belief that a grain of sand acts as the irritant is in fact rarely the case. Typical stimuli include organic material, parasites, or even damage that displaces mantle tissue to another part of the animal's body. These small particles or organisms enter the animal when the shell valves are open for feeding or respiration. In cultured pearls, the irritant is typically a cut piece of the mantle epithelium, together with processed shell beads, the combination of which the animal accepts into its body. [1][2][3]

The unique lustre of pearls depends upon the reflection and refraction of light from the translucent layers and is finer in proportion as the layers become thinner and more numerous. The iridescence that some pearls display is caused by the overlapping of successive layers, which breaks up light falling on the surface. Pearls are usually white, sometimes with a creamy or pinkish tinge, but may be tinted with yellow, green, blue, brown, purple, or black. Black pearls, frequently referred to as Black Tahitian Pearls, are highly valued because of their rarity; the culturing process for them dictates a smaller volume output and can never be mass produced. This is due to bad health and/or non-survival of the process, rejection of the nucleus (the small object such as a tiny fish, grain of sand or crab that slips naturally inside an oyster's shell or inserted by a human), and their sensitivity to changing climatic and ocean conditions. Before the days of cultured pearls, black pearls were rare and highly valued for the simple reason that white pearl oysters rarely produced natural black pearls, and black pearl oysters rarely produced any natural pearls at all. Since pearl culture technology, the black pearl oyster found in Tahiti and many other Pacific Island area has been extensively used for producing cultured pearls. The rarity of the black cultured pearl is now a "comparative" issue. The black cultured pearl is rare when compared to Chinese freshwater cultured pearls, and Japanese and Chinese Akoya cultured pearls, and is more valuable than these pearls. However, it is more abundant than the south sea pearl, which is more valuable than the black cultured pearl. This is simply due to the fact that the black pearl oyster Pinctada Margaritifera is far more abundant than the elusive, rare, and larger south sea pearl oyster - Pinctada Maxima, which cannot be found in lagoons, but which must be dived for in a rare number of deep ocean habitats. Black cultured pearls from the black pearl oyster - pinctada margaritifera - are NOT south sea pearls, although they are often mistakenly described as black south sea pearls. In the absence of an official definition for the pearl from the black oyster, these pearls are usually referred to as "black Tahitian pearls" The correct definition of a south sea pearl - as described by CIBJO and the GIA - is a pearl produced by the pinctada maxima pearl oyster. South sea pearls are the colour of their host pinctada maxima oyster - and can be white, silver, pink, gold, cream, and any combination of these basic colours, including overtones of the various colours of the rainbow displayed in the pearl nacre of the oyster body itself.

The largest pearl ever found so far, came from the Philippines in 1934. It weighed 14 lbs (6.36 kgs) when it was discovered by an anonymous Muslim Filipino diver off the island of Palawan. Later, a Palawan chieftain gave the pearl to Wilbur Dowell Cobb in 1936 as gift for having saved the life of his son. It was first called the Pearl of Allah and is now officially named the Pearl of Lao-Tzu. [4]

Pearls fit into two categories: freshwater and saltwater. As their name implies, freshwater pearls are formed in freshwater mussels that live in lakes, rivers, ponds and other bodies of fresh water. Most freshwater cultured pearls sold today come from China. By contrast, saltwater pearls grow in oysters that live in the ocean, usually in protected lagoons. Akoya, South Sea and Tahitian are the three main types of saltwater pearls.

Answer 10

Try this, I hope it helps you in your work :0)

http://www.karipearls.com/characteristics-of-pearls.html