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Imperial-Deltah and Eyris Blue Pearls (New Zealand) are pleased to announce
Imperial as the exclusive distributor of Eyris Blue Pearls in the US.
In seeking out the right partner in the US market it seems only fitting that Eyris Blue Pearls will be distributed by the owner of the domain www.pearls.com and the slogan ‘We are Pearls’. Having the expertise in pearling that spans several generations means that Peter Bazar, President of Imperial-Deltah, immediately saw the opportunity with these rare blue pearls that are unique to New Zealand.
Roger Beattie, Managing Director of Eyris Blue Pearls has striven for 20 years to now be in a position to offer this beautiful product in limited quantities, of exceptional quality, to overseas markets.
Roger’s blue pearl journey has been a rollercoaster ride of trials and tribulations but sheer persistence has led him to this exciting time.
Once Peter Bazar met with Eyris representative Christine Prince in Tucson and saw the quality of the abalone gems he decided to go on his own journey. A week later and Peter Bazar found himself in Christchurch, New Zealand, ready to meet the man behind the Blue Pearl – Roger Beattie.
The Pearl Farm
Peter Bazar experiences the Blue Pearl journey, travelling to the isolated farms and seeing the processing and grading first hand. The journey is long but fascinating as Roger explains each step of the process and why each thing is done in a particular way. The abalone pearl is the most difficult type of pearl to culture.
The farms need to be ocean based located in more sheltered bays with the optimal tidal flow and mineral content. Unlike oysters the abalone are not filter feeders they are hand fed a gourmet diet of nutrient rich seaweed and can eat up to 50% of their own body weight per week. The quality of the seaweed, general health of the shell and location of the farms is critical to the colour of the resultant pearl. Many factors can be influenced but many cannot. Roger, working in harmony with nature has turned blue pearls culture into an art form. more
Roger Beattie
It's a story of the vision of New Zealander Roger Beattie who, in 1989, established the first ocean based blue pearl farm at Whangamoe Inlet on New Zealand's Chatham Islands. His understanding of the pearl fishery and an empathy not only for the environment but also the very rhythms of nature's life cycles, led Roger and his team to embark on a project which would see the creation of a new gem, unparalleled in its beauty and color.
more about Roger
Images of New Zealand
Images of New Zealand
on of the most beautiful places on earth
The Pearls
Blue pearl colors range from blues, greens, golds and pinks, and some have splashes of red and violet. There are bright vibrant tones and soft subtle hues.
The pearls have a chameleon quality about them; the colors change in the way that they catch the light, liquid color that almost have a life of their own.
This variation in color gives each pearl a distinctive character. The number of color combinations is infinite.
The
colors of blue pearls are created by the genetic make up of each individual
paua, the colors and iridescence of their shell, their diet and the natural
environment in which they live.
Paua are grazing animals, feeding on a variety of seaweeds. It is the
combination of brown, red and green seaweeds with their amazing array of
nutrients that gives each blue pearl its wonderful spectrum of colors.
Blue Pearl Processing
The process involved in preparing a pearl is quite involved from cutting the pearl from the shell to a beautiful blue cultured pearl
The Abalone
Abalone are a gentle sea snail, with a large central muscular foot with an amazingly colorful and lustrous shell. There are over one hundred different species of abalone throughout the worlds oceans. The native New Zealand species is called Paua. Paua or Haliotis iris are only found in the cool clear waters close to the New Zealand coastline; it is these creatures which possess the greatest range of colors and iridescence of any abalone shell.
New Zealand's Paua Fishery is managed by strict quotas, which allow only a set amount of paua to be caught each year. Even then the only permitted method of harvesting is by "free-diving" without underwater breathing apparatus. Paua occur in the exposed, rougher waters off New Zealand's rocky coastline at a depth of between one and fifteen meters.
The Jewelry
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