Guide to Pearl Shapes in Cultured Freshwater Pearls:Baroque Pearls,Button Pearls,Coin Pearls,Mabe Pearls,Odd Shaped Pearls,Potato Pearl,Rice Pearl,Ringed Pearls,Round Pearls,Nearly Round Pearls.

Understanding the Colors of Modern Pearls.Here are some of the best gemstone beads and pearl pairings.

The vocabulary of gemstone beads is complicated. Beadworks helps you find exactly the gemstone beads that you are looking for by providing this simply guide to the terms used to characterize the shape of gemstone beads.

Optimization of Gems:Dyed,Heat Treated,Irradiated,Reconstitution,Stabilization.

Methods for cleansing stones:Fire,Smudging,Water,Earth,Air,Sea salt,Light,Sound,Breathe,Visualization,Plants,Quartz cluster,Pyramid.

Here are the most common types of gemstone beads worn as jewelry or used in various other forms. Along with the stones traditional attributes, they also look great! Please take a look carefully at each stone and their meaning and try them to see for yours

You may have just bought many beads, and now you are wondering what you can do with them. Or, perhaps you would like to purchase some beads, but are unsure of which ones might be the most helpful to you. Or maybe you are planning to start a collection of

Gemstone Past and Present