What Is A Mabe Pearl

Grown attached to the inside of the shell mabe pearls are hemispherical in shape.

What is a mabe pearl.

A mabe pearl is actually a cultured blister pearl that is grown differently than other cultured pearls. Mabé pearls also known as blister pearls are half pearls that are cultivated on the inside of a mollusk s shell. These large super sized pearls are breath takingly lovely. Instead of being grown inside the body of a mollusk creature a mabe pearl is grown against the inside of the shell.

Mabe pearl definition is a cultured pearl essentially hemispherical in form called also mabe. The fact that they are mabes is what makes the big size and the south sea mollusk nacre makes them beautiful. What exactly are mabes. A small nucleus usually made out of mother of pearl is attached to the shell of the mollusk and left to accumulate nacre over a period that usually runs about two or three years.