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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 04/10/2026

Here is one of George Kukuda's pearl sorters, grading harvested Akoya pearls. This is close enough to the sea and Ise, Japan that you can smell the salt air.

Hands sorting white Akoya pearls in a pearl sorting facility.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 03/10/2026

These are jeweled wand pendants. The wand is an ancient object of intentional power represented across many cultures. It's not a weapon, or a tool, but rather a conductor. It directs what's already present. This is the Love and Water theme, designed as amulets of personal resource and ability.

A love and water themed jeweled wand pendant.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 30/09/2026

I took this at the Kakuda Pearl Farm in Ise, Japan. George Kakuda, like his father, farms Akoya pearls and he's our main source. I can't translate the chalk notations on the steel work table; probably lot numbers, harvest dates, or grading counts. The shells are almost more lovely than the pearls.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 29/09/2026

These Angela Cummings design cufflinks each show three faces of a cube. There is a dialogue between geometry and geology. They appear to partially melt into the stone I placed in the set.

Two cube-shaped cufflinks placed on a striated grey stone on a white photographic background.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 27/09/2026

I hate to mess with the integrity of a living origin gemstone.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 27/09/2026

This is an Angela Cummings design. I love how the lab grown diamond sits in the setting like a moon in the sky, surrounded by a sisterhood of stars. The ring picks up the color of a tulip behind.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 27/09/2026

I super doubt that they split it. Looks unlovely inside. If you don't graft a pearl with a round nucleus to structure and guide the oyster's build up of nacre then the pearl doesn't turn out round. You get keshi pearls in all kinds of baroque shapes.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 27/09/2026

It's a Jewelmer piece, not ours. Not sure about that curiosity, but I was inspired by the visual design. We source golden pearls from them out of the Sulu Sea. If you slice it in half the inside of a cultured pearl shows the round nucleus of the bead they graft with. It is rare to cut it.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 24/09/2026

Ordinarily, a piece of jewelry is the centerpiece with everything directed inward toward it. In this design there is an outward radiation from the Philippines golden pearl: The spokes, the arcs, the diamonds, are organized around the pearl as the origin point.

An elaborate jewelry brooch made of gold and diamonds radiating from a central golden pearl.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 22/09/2026

Crimson and gold is a longstanding color pairing dating to imperial China, Byzantine culture, and medieval heraldry. Here branded red leather is paired with gold findings and a golden Phillipine pearl, the presentation celebrated by a brilliant tropical setting.

Golden pearl bracelet in a tropical setting.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 22/09/2026

It takes 2 to 4 years in pristine tropical waters to cultivate a south sea pearl. They have the thickest nacre, deposited by the oyster layer by layer and creating a mirror-like luster.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 20/09/2026

How the people at Nordstrom enhance the photography we give them, I just don't know. The facets in this teardrop lab grown diamond are so clear and vibrant. Even so, the tell-tale "bow tie" shadow that you get shooting a diamond this shape, it's still there.

A teardrop lab grown diamond pendant against the white background.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 17/09/2026

This is our Waterdrop design pendant that is gaining a lot of ground at Nordstrom. At least for subsonic travel, the teardrop is the world's most aerodynamic shape.

A silver and gold teardrop theme pendant each on a chain.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 15/09/2026

Something about Angela Cummings designed stars that looks easy and somehow inevitable.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 13/09/2026

Textures bring black Tahitian pearls alive.

A strand of black Tahitian pearls draped over a greenish stone and a textured piece of wood.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 12/09/2026

An Angela Cummings design, Tahitian black pearl.

A silver ring with a black Tahitian pearl.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 10/09/2026

Dawn, the pearl farm on Ahe Atoll, French Polynesia, pop. 550.

A dawn photo of a pearl farm in a tropical lagoon connected to land by a rickety wooden footbridge.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 07/09/2026

The butterfly is one of the most enduring symbols of change dating back to Greek, Egyptian, and Aztec cultures. Like Indian summer, and apples for the picking, it's here and then it's gone.

A jeweled butterfly pendant pinned to a red apple.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 06/09/2026

Here is a translation of the last post for our Japanese friends: これは天草諸島にある「角田真珠養殖場」を訪れた際の写真です。George Kaludaのウェブサイトのタグライン「すべての人に喜びと幸せをお届けする」がすべてを物語っています。ここでは、爽やかな若手の真珠職人がアコヤ貝に核入れを行い、真珠の生成を促す核を挿入しています。

A pearl worker at a workstation crafting oysters using hand to. ols

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 06/09/2026

This is in Japan where we visited the Kakuda Pearl Farm on Amakusa island. George Kaluda's website tagline says it all: "Delivering joy and happiness to all." Here a refreshingly young pearl artisan is grafting Akoya oysters, inserting the nucleus that prompts pearl production.

A pearl worker grafts oysters at a workstation using hand tools.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 05/09/2026

This is the pearl farm at Kuri Bay that produced the pearls in the last post.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 05/09/2026

South Sea pearls from the farm at Kuri Bay, Western Australia.

Close up of a woman with a strand of large white pearls.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 04/09/2026

What a delightful symbol is the seahorse! Grace, poise, mysticism, and a surprising savagery: They are ambush predators with a 95% kill rate! This one views the world with a lab grown diamond eye while it cradles the spirit of Poseidon in its tail, a Tahitian pearl.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 02/09/2026

These are Angela Cummings designed sterling silver stars, now available on the floor of the flagship Nordstrom in New York City. Shot this close with a macro lens, the sumo orange becomes backdrop. Silver reflects 95% of the light that comes to it.

To Angela Cummings design sterling silver stars photographed close against the top of a sumo orange.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 30/08/2026

All from the same species of oyster, from the same lagoon: silver, peacock, aubergine, olive, champagne, steel, rose, and colors that don't have names. What a jewelry vocabulary.

A collection of black Tahitian pearls with various hues against the White backdrop.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 24/08/2026

These are two black Tahitian pearls are photographed on the inside of an oyster shell which makes it look like they are floating along.

Two black Tahitian pearls photographed on liquidy looking mother of pearl.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 23/08/2026

"It is not down on any map; true places never are." Melville. On the way to the village on Ahe Atoll, French Polynesia, pop. about 550. The entire lagoon empties and refills through a single pass in the reef. One chokepoint controls every tide, every boat, the nutrients for the pearl oysters.

A woman staring ahead at the prow of a flat bottom boat in a tropical location with electric green water.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 22/08/2026

Mother of pearl heart inserts cut from the inside of a West Australian white-lipped oyster. The reds and greens pop out at different angles of view.

A rose and five mother of pearl heart inserts on a gray photographic set.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 20/08/2026

Mother of pearl is cut from the smooth, iridescent inside of an oyster shell. Cut and polished, it reveals teal, violet, magenta, shifting with every degree of movement.

Mother of pearl heart pendant on a brain coral in front of a turquoise sea.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 19/08/2026

Orange and blue-green are almost opposite on the color wheel. This makes each more intense than they would be alone. Black Tahitian pearls like these come in silver, metallic blue, and sea green like this. It's the paint box of the blacklipped oyster.

An orange flower on a white photographic set, positioned diagonally and draped with a Tahitian black pearl strand.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 16/08/2026

Here is the mold for an Angela Cummings sterling silver seahorse together with the finished product. One is presence. One is absence. An object and its memory occupy the same frame.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 13/08/2026

Harvested black Tahitian pearls dockside at the pearl farm on Ahe Atoll.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 09/08/2026

These are the famous black lipped oysters that produce black Tahitian pearls. This is on site, right on the dock of the pearl farm in French polynesia.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 08/08/2026

Tropical pearls are extremely sensitive to water quality. That's why pearl farms are always in isolation. Before nacre, before luster, before any of it there is crystal clear water. The lagoon's mineral clarity is part of why Ahe Atoll pearls carry that particular cool, silvery overtone.

A woman in a baseball cap, red shirt, yellow skirt, looking down as she rides in a boat over electric green, clear tropical in front of a tropical skyline.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 06/08/2026

Left this mixed black Tahitian strand strand to its own devices for a minute and it decided to coil up under the dragon fruit.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 01/08/2026

All curl and crown, here is the Angela Cummings designed seahorse in 925 sterling silver with a lab diamond eye and Tahitian black pearl. It's regal without being rigid.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 28/07/2026

No jewelry tradition I can find concerning the walrus (which makes this piece kind of a unicorn). It's an Angela Cummings designed ring. The walrus can slow its heartbeat to near zero to survive freezing temperatures. And the tusks aren't for fighting. They help the walrus climb up onto ice floes.

Macro photography image of a walrus theme ring in silver with green jeweled eyes.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 25/07/2026

Black and white is the most deliberate design, every decision binary. The starfish underneath it arrived through 450 million years of improvisation. A starfish has no brain and no blood. It moves using thousands of tiny tube feet operated by water pressure. They make an unlikely pair.

A black and white lacquer and silver Angela Cummings design bangle on top of a starfish on a white photo setting.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 23/07/2026

I took this with my phone at a photo shoot in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The model was great. She showed up on a scooter in a sweatshirt! She's got a beautiful strand and bracelet of South Sea pearls from the West Coast of Australia, the Timor Sea.

A fashion model in a black dress and pearls posing for photographer on a photo set.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 21/07/2026

Here is black Tahitian pearl harvest at the pearl farm on Ahe Atoll, French Polynesia.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 19/07/2026

From Ahe Atoll, French Polynesia, dockside at a pearl farm. The shell is from the black lipped oyster that produces black Tahitian pearls. You can see the rainbow of colors at the fringe of the shell. These are the same colors lent to the pearls it creates, layer by layer.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 16/07/2026

Here's my setting for this Akoya strand. The sumo orange is aggressively imperfect with cinnamon sticks added as a buffer. Cinnamon was once worth more than gold by weight. The Portuguese, Dutch, and British fought wars over control of the trees in Ceylon. It sits now in every kitchen in the world.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 15/07/2026

The (lab-grown) diamond eye seems appropriate for something that has been quietly defying expectations for 40 million years. And the sea-green pearl it carries.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 11/07/2026

We love these Angela Cummings design stars and just got them into the floor display at the Nordstrom flagship store in New York city. We're always looking for celestial themes to showcase them. You see on the top star? The blue painter's tape sticking the star to the backdrop?

A glass globe surrounded by a necklace of silver stars.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 09/07/2026

Silver reflects more so than any other metal with 95-99% light return. What looks like amber warmth glowing inside this piece is the silver faithfully reporting the color of everything around it. This Angela Cummings bangle is paying very close attention to the world outside.

A close shot of an Angela Cummings bangle curved around a copper surface and reflecting that color.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 07/07/2026

There are four flowers in this image. Two were grown. Two others were carved from the lining of a shell and set with a lab diamond at the center. Two of these will be gone by the weekend.

Two tulips and two flower shaped earrings on the photography setting.

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Roseate Jewelry @roseatejewelry.com · 07/07/2026

On board a pearling ship in the Timor Sea off the coast of Western Australia with an impossible trove of South Sea pearls.

A woman smiling opens plastic container filled with large white pearls.

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