Sierra Leone Marriage Fashion 2015 Gold Jewellery Necklace Ring 185

Sierra Leone Marriage Fashion 2015 Gold Jewellery Necklace Ring.

 By Aamir Mannan.

17th Century Fake Pearls and Strass Paste Gems

In the 1630s large quantities of pearls were used as clothing accessories.  To be truly fashionable pearls needed to be worn in abundance.  In the C17th, Jaquin of Paris patented a method of making fake pearls.  He coated blown glass hollow balls with varnish mixed with iridescent ground fish scales.  The hollow balls were then filled with wax to strengthen them.  This method made Paris the main producer of fake pearls for over 200 years.