Pearls are one of the most beautiful and most beloved jewelry of women. So you want to give your beloved a necklace or earrings with pearls. But, as you know, the best gift is a handmade gift. Therefore, we will try to grow pearls on our own.
It is necessary
To do this, we need one or more pearl oysters, a grain of sand, a cross, a bead - any item that you want to turn into a pearl
Instructions
Step 1
Take the pearl oyster in your hands. Gently, so as not to damage the muscles compressing the shell valves, open it. Place the item of your choice between the mantle and the shell wall.
Step 2
To make the mother-of-pearl settle evenly on the walls of the foreign body, you can use the method invented by Linnaeus. Carefully drill a hole in the sink and through it insert a silver wire with a ball at the end into the inside. Scroll the wire from time to time - the pearl will not grow to the walls of the shell, but it will have an even and beautiful shape.
Step 3
There is another way to grow pearls, but for this you need at least two pearls. Carefully cut a piece of the mantle from one of the clams and place it in the mantle of the other. Pearls grown in this way are of fairly high quality.
Step 4
After you have placed a foreign object in the mantle of the mollusk, feel free to release it into the sea, having previously fenced off the area where your pearl oyster will swim. And after two or three years, check the harvest!
