Pearl with a mother of pearl bead center. In the cultured pearl industry, the resources used to create a mistaken all nacre baroque pearl is a drain on the production of round cultured pearls. Therefore, they are trying to improve culturing technique so that keshi pearls do not occur. All nacre pearls may one day be limited to natural found pearls. Today many "keshi" pearls are actually intentional, with post-harvest shells returned to the water to regenerate a pearl in the existing pearl sac. Tahitian pearls, frequently referred to as black pearls, are highly valued because of their rarity; the culturing
Pearl (given name) Doll Company in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. The doll was based on a cartoon character created by William Steig. One recently named Pearl, the then two-year-old Pearl McKay, was the star of the 2007 short film "The Landlord". Pearl Bailey was an American singer and actress. Pearl Richards Craigie was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist, who wrote under the pen-name John Oliver Hobbes. Pearl Aday was an American singer-songwriter. Pearl Fryar has a topiary garden described in the documentary film "A Man Named Pearl". Pearl is one of the two members of the fictional band