August 3, 2007, Newsletter Issue #98: Mine are Baroquen

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Baroque pearls are oddly shaped saltwater pearls. They aren't historic, they're just non-conformists. In shape, that is. Baroque is simply the term pearl fans give to pearls that aren't round. These baroque beauties are irregular, abstract, and anything but symmetrical. They're created by inserting an abstract shape into the mollusk to reproduce an abstract shape in the finished pearl. They march to a different drummer, and create stunning beading project for the non-conformist in all of us.

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