Baroque pearls take centre stage in the hands of Mary MacGill, who suspends freshwater pearls on delicate, hammered gold wire. Japanese brand The 'Vit sources its pearls in Japan, pairing them with ...

The vast majority of freshwater pearls are baroque–over 90%–because these are mantle tissue nucleated, not bead nucleated. This means that as the pearl is growing in the tougher muscle tissue ...

One of the largest freshwater pearls found in Scottish ... Warsh writes in her book, "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of the Empire, 1492-1700." Indigenous inhabitants were forced by ...