This is a necklace made with 8.0–8.5 mm Japanese Akoya natural blue baroque pearls.

It is all-knotted with yellow thread, and I think the yellow makes the translucent blue baroque pearls look even fresher and brighter.

Flower Jem began because I was fascinated by blue pearl necklaces all-knotted with colored thread. In the beginning, however, yellow was not even one of the colors I considered using.

Then one customer specifically requested yellow thread. Once I tried it, I discovered that it actually looked quite playful and fresh.

Since then, I have used yellow thread from time to time.

By the way, the name of this necklace, “Tsuki no Ito,” means “Moon Thread” in Japanese.

The blue pearls are the sky, and the yellow thread is the thread of the moon.

Did you just chuckle a little?

Ah, I must have imagined it.

Anyway, Moon Thread it is. It actually took me quite a while to come up with this name.

Most of the pearls at Flower Jem are blue baroque Akoya pearls.

The longer I continue, the harder it becomes to think of new names. I have already used quite a few names related to blue, so I am a little worried about what I will do in the future.

When it comes to thread colors, everyone has different tastes, so I would like to keep trying all kinds of colors.

As for the pearls themselves, although they are baroque in shape, their surfaces are smooth. The luster is not extremely intense, but I would still describe it as strong.

This necklace also uses a clip-style clasp, so you can fasten it freely anywhere along its 46 cm / 18.1 in length.

Normally, the pearls in a necklace are arranged so that their direction changes at the center, with the pearls facing outward toward both ends. Flower Jem necklaces are different. I do not divide the direction at the center; every pearl faces the same way. If you imagine teardrop-shaped pearls, all of the pointed ends would face in the same direction.

When I worked for a pearl company, I was taught to follow the conventional direction of the pearls in a necklace. But one customer once told me, “I prefer all the pearls to face the same way.” I tried it, liked it myself, and have arranged my necklaces that way ever since.

By the way, what color do you like?

If you’d like to read a little more about the ideas behind this necklace, here are two related stories — one about my all-knot necklaces with colored thread, and another about the deep blue beauty of natural blue Akoya pearls.

A collection of short stories about All-knot

Deep Sea Luster: The Enchanting Blue Akoya

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