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Wholesale Freshwater Pearls
A beautiful string of freshwater cultured pearls is something every woman loves. Stemming from naturally occurring phenomena, the freshwater cultured pearls industry has been a way of life for pearl farmers in Japan and China. Cultured and natural pearls occur in mussels in much the same way that saltwater pearls occur in oysters in the ocean. Freshwater pearls occur when foreign material gets into a mussel. Just as irritation occurs when a human gets a piece of dirt in his eye, the material irritates the mussel. Thus, the mussel covers the object with a secretion of nacre, a substance it uses to build shells.
Japanese were the first to produce cultured freshwater pearls. By the 1930s, the practice became a commercial business when corps of cultured, faceted freshwater pearl bead collections appeared. Produced almost completely with the nacre substance, many different faceted freshwater pearl bead colors began to form.
We have a great selection of quality wholesale freshwater pearls to choose from. Order yours now!
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Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8mm x 10mm. This wonderful freshwater pearl bead has intricate fine silver bead caps on each end of the pearl bead. Sweet!!!
$4/bead
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Item #16077 |
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Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
9mm x 12mm. This wonderful freshwater pearl bead has intricate fine silver bead caps on each end of the pearl bead. Sweet!!!
$5/each
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Item #16076 |
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Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
This is a wonderful deal for a variety of pearls. All shapes, sizes and colors to please your pallet. Top drilled, side drilled, long drilled and center drilled. These freshwater pearls come in a continuous strand that is a whopping six feet in length. Now that’s a deal!
$18/6 foot strand
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Item #16064 |
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Mabe Pearl Beads Ivory White
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
Appx 17mm. ’A’ Grade - These are two Mabe Pearls fused together and drilled to give you a wonderfully unique strand of beads. These are in the "Oh My God" gorgeous!!! Must have. Get these while they last.
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$110/15.5" strand
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Item #16026 |
Freshwater Button Pearls-Pastel Rainbow
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
5.5-6mm. What a lovely rainbow of pastel colors there are in these strands of freshwater button pearls.
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$8/16" strand
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Item #15037 |
Freshwater Peacock Button Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8.5-9mm. Peacock button pearls with lots of luster! Gotta love em!
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$34/16" strand
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Item #14935 |
Freshwater Bronze Button Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8.5-9mm. Button pearls in warm bronze color. Lots of luster!
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$16/16" strand
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Item #14934 |
Freshwater Pearl Beads - The Big Nugget
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
11-12mm. Sizes and shapes vary a bit. These are unusual and big. Great value!
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$28/16" strand
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Item #13655 |
Huge Freshwater Potato Pearls to Please!
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
12-13mm. These are really nice. Some strands have more rings than others, but all are uniquely beautiful. Lots of luster. Great large quality!
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$48/16" strand
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Item #13524 |
Large Luster Freshwater Potato Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
11-12mm round. Yes, they have some rings, but they are very very nice! Lots of luster. Big size without a really big price. Very limited.
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$54/16" strand
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Item #13522 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #10344 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #10343 |
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Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
18-19mm. These are a very nice AA quality with a finished backing of Mother of Pearl Shell. Check out the enlargement to see the back of this natural beauty.
$39/each
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Item #10224 |
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Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
40mm round. Each one is unique. These are embedded Mabe pearls that have formed within the shell and then the shell is cut. They are wonderful. I have hand picked each one. No two are exactly alike. All are wonderful. Great to use as a focal piece for wire wrapping, setting into silver, or encorporating into seed bead work. We have not drilled any holes into these.
$12/each
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Item #10116 |
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White Button Freshwater Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
6.5mm. Nice luster. Some strands are flatter than others. All are beautiful!
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10112 |
Golden Button Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
6.5mm. Very nice quality and cute size.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10111 |
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10090 |
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$10/16" strand
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Item #10006 |
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$10/16" strand
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Item #10005 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9900 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9899 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #9898 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #9467 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9466 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9465 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9414 |
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$8.50/16" strand
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Item #9413 |
In the Greens - Freshwater Potato Pearl Beads
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
5-5.5mm. These have a variety of shades of greens from a golden greeen to a deep metallic green. Yummy.
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$10/16" strand
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Item #9412 |
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$14/16" strand
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Item #9409 |
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$18/16" strand
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Item #9408 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9407 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9286 |
Naturals Multi Freshwater Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
4.5-5mm. Beautiful colors here: ivory, pinks and lavender.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #9283 |
Fresh Green Freshwater Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
5-5.5mm. Lovely green luster.
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$16/16" strand
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Item #9282 |
Deep Olive Green Freshwater Pearl Nuggets
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
7-8mm. These are more regular in size. Nice luster on these for the money!
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$5/16" strand
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Item #9262 |
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$38/16" strand
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Item #9202 |
Freshwater Pink Potato Pearls
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8-10mm. Not a round pearl, but a great value and some nice luster.
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$12/16" Strand
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Item #8789 |
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$11/16" strand
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Item #7626 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #7617 |
Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix - White/Silvers
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8mm approximate size. These are very pretty. Great luster. Each strand has a mix of whites and peacock silver pearls. Some do have rings, but the luster is very nice.
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$15/16" strand
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Item #7482 |
Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix - Green/Yellows
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
8mm approximate size. Some of these have rings, but what a nice mix on each strand. Pretty luster.
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$15/16" strand
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Item #7481 |
Purple Peacock Freshwater Nuggets
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
6 x 10mm average size. These vary a bit in shape. The luster and purplish peacock color is nice and unusual.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #7460 |
White Freshwater Pearl Nuggets
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
4 x 8mm appx size. Nice luster on these basic white nugget pearls.
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$9/16" strand
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Item #5399 |
Mother Natures Pearls of Wonder!
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
up to and over the 10mm size in thickness. They are very hard to size as each pearl is unique.These are what you could call mother natures’ mistakes. We call them "Pearls of Wonder." Mother Nature sometimes adds an extension of nacre, called a nodelle to the pearl offering endless creative possibilities. These beauties are natural in color. Some are peach and some have more pink in them. The luster is top grade. Very rare find. Only a few available. Net pricing here*
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$385/per 16" strand
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Item #4142 |
Flat Button Freshwater Pearl
Category: Fresh Water Pearls, Wholesale Freshwater Pearls ,White Button Freshwater Pearls
6-6.5mm Flat button freshwater pearl
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$24/16" strand
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Item #195 |
We are your best source for freshwater pearl beads, wholesale freshwater pearls, freshwater cultured pearls and faceted freshwater pearls.
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