Keishi pearls are formed when mollusk ejects the pearl bead nucleus and still continues to make a pearl. For that reason, Keishi pearls are available in many unusual shapes and a variety of sizes and colors.
Dark gold keishi pearls are drilled through the flat center of the pearl - what is usually called a "side-drilled" style. Nice highlights appear in the rose, green and yellow tones.
These keishi pearls are a unique color of gold with brassy highlights. You'll see lots of cupped surfaces and mostly oval shaped outlines in this batch of pearls.
Lately, we've been seeing Keishi pearls available in this end-to-end drilled style. The pearls have the same wavy & cupped look. These white keishi pearls have very nice opalescence and luster.
End-to-end drilled keishi pearls are a great Antique Copper color with metallic highlights of gold. green and a hint of purple. The luster is very good.
Peacock Green center drilled keishi pearls have highlights in a range of colors with gold & green predominant. Expect diameters from about 4.5mm to 6.5mm.
The pearls have the same wavy & cupped look as the keishi pearls that are drilled across the smallest end, but tend to be a bit thicker. The pearls are white and have very nice opalescence and luster.
These large keishi pearls have a very nice silvery white color tone and excellent opalescent luster. Pearls have large & wide faces and many have the thin cupped style that is so in demand.
Excellent copper color and standout highlights really make a statement. They are very rounded in shape and thin in profile - everything you look for in a keishi.
These Keishi pearls are a nice bright white with very good opalescence and luster. Some pearls will have slightly irregular outlines. This batch has been drilled across the flat center of the pearl.
Larger pearls with terrific luster, great opalescence, these have the characteristic cupped shape that denote the most desirable pearls in the keishe style.
The wide profile of these center drilled Keishi pearls give the strands a very bold appearance. The color is a subtle Gold with lots of multi-hued highlights.
The stand out features of these larger Champagne gold Keishi pearls are the opalescence highlights and the excellent luster. The pearls have a bit of a "3D" shape and are drilled through the center.
Here is an especially good value in this style of White Keishi pearl. While many of the pearls show the characteristic cupped shape that is desirable in Keishi pearls, you also find a variety of more three dimensional or irregular shapes, which keeps the overall price per strand lower.
Brilliantly colored Raspberrry Pink Keishi pearls. Many pearls in this group have that great looking "cup" or "cornflake" shape and luster is also very good.
Here is an unusual color choice in Keishi pearls. The pearls were dyed a pale blue color, but they also had a very light secondary dye pass in a pinkish purple color.
Quantity
Price
1 9
$7.40
10 49
$6.29
50 +
$5.18
Quantity:
How Many Keishi Pearls on a Strand?
It's hard to say because Keishi pearls are typically drilled at the end and scrunched together on a strand. If you need to the know the number for a specific project, please contact us at info@abeadstore.com
Pearl buying tips:
Freshwater pearls are temporarily strung and sold by the strand. Strands are usually 15.5-16" long (40 cm).
Pearls are a natural product and some styles and colors will be available only in limited amounts. Though we try to buy pearls that can be re-stocked,
some styles may not be available again. So, we suggest you purchase all the strands that you need for a particular project at the same time.
Our pearls are priced based on their overall quality. Higher priced pearls will be more consistent in color and shape and have better luster. Small pearls also will be higher in price (more labor to prepare the strands) as will very large pearls (more rare and they take longer to culture).
The freshwater pearls we sell at abeadstore.com and PearlBeadSale.com are all cultured pearls; for more information about the pearl culturing process please see the All About Pearls page on our wholesale website PearlBeadSale.com.
For more tips and information about selecting and buying Freshwater Pearls, please visit Pearl Buying Tips. .