William Travis Jewelry Offers Pearl (Parasol) Jewelry That Can’t Be Found Elsewhere
Aug 12, 2019
Written by Jennifer Heebner
Filed under parasols, pearl, pearl jewellery, pearl jewelry, pearl parasols, pearls
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William Travis Jewelry Offers Pearl (Parasol) Jewelry That Can’t Be Found Elsewhere

Chapel Hill, N.C. Aug 12, 2019. It was a Monet exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007 that got Travis Kukovich, owner of William Travis Jewelers in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a CPAA member, thinking differently about parasols.

Painting with Pearls: Japanese Maki-e and Mosaics on Pearls
Aug 02, 2019
Written by Jennifer Heebner
Filed under maki-e pearls, mosaic jewelry, mosaic pearls, pearl, pearl jewellery, pearl jewelry
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Painting with Pearls: Japanese Maki-e and Mosaics on Pearls

New York City, Aug. 1, 2019. It was spring of 2017 when Aziz Basalely, founder of Eliko Pearl and president of the CPAA, first spied maki-e and mosaic pearls—lacquer and 24k gold powdered paint and abalone shell tiles, respectively—and they’ve been in his inventory ever since.

Tiny 5 mm to 7 mm Tahitians—Did You Know They Exist?
Feb 28, 2019
Written by Jennifer Heebner
Filed under pearl, pearl jewellery, pearl jewelry, pearls, Tahitian pearl, Tahitians, tiny pearls
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Tiny 5 mm to 7 mm Tahitians—Did You Know They Exist?

Hong Kong. March 1, 2019. In 2015, CPAA member Alexander Collins, of the eponymous loose Tahitian pearl company based in the Takaroa atoll in French Polynesia, experienced a problem to which only Tahitian pearl farmers could relate: he ran out of mature oysters to graft.

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