Pearls are made naturally as well as with the help of machines, producing artificial pearls. In recent years man has taken over the nature and most of pearl’s production is through machine. Now only one third of the total pearls produced is through nature. Therefore, natural pearls necklaces are one of the rare ones in the market and are relatively expensive too.

One mode of producing pearl naturally is from freshwater. And through nature, freshwater pearls can be colored in different shades. Unlike Akoya pearl, freshwater pearl are available in vide variety of shapes and natural colors but they have less luster and shine. Dark color gives an extra elegant look to a pearl necklace and makes black freshwater pearl necklace a rare piece and makes it look expensive, although they are not as expensive as saltwater pearls.

Japanese were the early pioneers in
Freshwater pearl as in Akoya pearl. But now Chinese have taken over and are producing low to high quality freshwater pearls. Chinese began the design, shapes and color of the pearls when in twelfth century they started coating their tiny buddhas carved from wood, stone or ivory or cast inside shells of mussels. These product became an instant success and gave birth to new generation of pearls and necklaces of different sizes, shapes and color, i.e. Black freshwater pearls necklace, silver-lip pearls etc.

A lot of designers prefer black pearls in making their jewelry. Large black pearl is probably the most exotic designer pearl. Black pearls also display a natural range of colors from silver to green pearls called “peacocks”. A perfect black pearl could sell for up to $40,000 in US. Therefore, Black freshwater pearl necklace is bought by a lot of women to show the world how wealthy they are and yet it looks very pretty too.