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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 10h

The river like flow of these pearl strands makes for a beautiful effect. We are constantly playing with props and perspective to find new ways to feature these beautiful gemstones, the only living gemstones. At the top are Japanese akoya pearls. Below are black Tahitian strands.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 2d

Our design motif is the ecologically aware water droplet that becomes the outline of the chain link. The hang tag is in Australian mother of pearl, that smooth, iridescent substance that lines the inside of an oyster shell.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 4d

Just in time for Halloween: a really spooky combination of white wedding dress upset by black Tahitian pearls!

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 5d

Beautiful, fanciful, ephemeral, the butterfly was regarded in ancient Egypt as a symbol of the soul's journey. Using Rhode Island metalsmith talent and tropical, mother of pearl for the irredescent wings, these jewels are worn as pins or brooches.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 6d

Here's an e-commerce close up of the Eddie Borgo TreasureLock design featured yesterday on model.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 7d

This is our TreasureLock design by Eddie Borgo. Each pearl (here a western Australian and a black Tahitian) has a shackle designed from two ecological droplets of water stretching to meet at the arc.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 8d

Three hearts lined up against a piece of quarry stone. There is mother of pearl from the white lipped oyster, mother of pearl from a black lipped oyster, and a lab-grown diamond made with wind power. The middle chain is rose gold while the two on the outside are yellow gold.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 9d

These mixed color Tahitian black pearl strands go mostly from gray to green, but you see hints of purple and blue. The Pinctada margeritafera oyster, known as the black lipped oyster, produces them.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 10d

The dragonfly spends most of its life underwater as a nymph. It is a broad cultural symbol of transformation, change, the power of living in the moment. In Japanese culture the dragonfly (tombo) symbolizes courage, strength, and happiness.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 15d

The amazing color variation of Tahitian black pearls includes black, chocolate, copper, gray, green, blue, silver, purple, "aubergine", and "peacock".

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 16d

Here's from our latest fashion shoot for the holiday season. The photographer is adjusting a beautiful mixed strand of Tahitian black pearls. We were blessed with a rental studio positioned to collect tons of natural light that you can see on the pink dress. This with my phone, no strobes.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 19d

These ocean pearls studs come from the west coast of Australia, an inaccessible place called Kuri Bay on the Timor Sea. Ocean pearls require pristine water to thrive - the remoteness from humanity makes a big environmental difference.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 22d

Like many things revolutionizing a world our grandparents wouldn't recognize, here are lab diamonds. This is crystallized carbon created in a laboratory with identical hardness, conductivity, optical properties as a diamond dug out of the ground. We like them for jewelry because we know the source.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 26d

Photo shoots are fascinating. So many visual and personality elements of the brand converge. We rented a studio on 8th avenue just uptown of Moynihan station in NYC. It was a fantastic day for natural light and that shaped everything we did and came away with.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 28d

A pearl farm image that captures the color, clarity, and richness of the pearl cultivation environment. Ocean oysters require a pristine environment to make pearls. This reality makes pearl farmers pragmatic environmentists who protect water quality to safeguard their livlihood.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 29d

This is the pearl farm at Kamoka on Ahe Atoll, French Polynesia. Josh Humbert's dad built it out on a coral knoll in the lagoon. It's near the equator so sunrise is pretty much the same time year round. And this is about the time they start each day.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Oct 4

The business of professional pearl farming and the flamboyant sport of undersea diving collide. During the two years required for a grafted oyster to produce a pearl the shells must be cleaned about monthly to push back the shell-boring parasites that would damage the harvest or kill the oyster.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Oct 3

After two years thriving in lagoon waters of Ahe Atoll, a black Tahitian pearl is harvested from a Pinctada margaritafera oyster. The oyster can be grafted twice more.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Oct 2

Pre-holiday season photo shoot yesterday in Manhattan with this lovely model, a woman almost irrationally beautiful. There were big, waist-to-ceiling windows in the studio we hired and so much beautiful autumn light that we hardly used the photo strobes at all. This shot was with my phone.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Oct 1

These are Western Australian pearl farmers. The oyster is the Pinctada maxima, the largest in the world. They are harvested from the sea floor. Harvesters spend 8-hour shifts breathing through air hoses. The oysters are grafted to produce pearls and suspended in open sea water in these devices.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Sep 28

Bora Bora is an atoll with a mountainous island inset. It's an incredible place with a name that sounds like a dream. The resorts are opulent while main town has a very local feel. There is a pronounced stray dog problem owing to resource allocation priorities. It is heartbreaking.

Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Sep 27

Akoya oysters from Japan are smaller than the ocean oysters that produce Tahitian and South Sea pearls. But they are beautiful! With tiger striped shells, their shell ridges fit together like little spoons. Here oysters are being grafted for pearls in Ise, Japan, during our last sourcing visit.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Sep 25

What a great shot from our colleagues at Kamoka Pearl in French Polynesia! That's their pearl farm where they work daily. It's a wooden platform built 100 ft out into the atoll lagoon on a coral head. There's always time for a backflip! See the reef shark under him?

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Sep 24

This bracelet strand of Japanese Akoya pearls is accented in a unique way: The pink gem is a ruby mined from Greenland. Rubies have an infamously conflicted sourcing history. Greenland offers a pure source alternative.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · Sep 21

The inside of an oyster shell is coated with nacre. Layer on layer of the substance creates a smooth, optically iridescent surface. And that's what pearls are made of.

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