Comments on: What Can I Do with Undrilled Pearls?

By: McNierneyLou

McNierneyLou — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:16:20 +0000

try imbedding some pearl (and a few other things) in a pouch with the wire mesh. It makes a beautiful bead (large bead) and they can be twisted together to make a lovely chain necklace or bracelet. I got the wire mesh at Artistic wire.

By: LindyLee

LindyLee — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:09:17 +0000

And don’t forget – you could always half or fully drill some pearls too. The pearls are surprisingly easy to drill through, use water while drilling, drill halfway then flip and do the other half so the nacre doesn’t splatter when the drill bit end breaks through the outer shell.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:04:38 +0000

Wonderful ideas! Thank you all so much! I’ll try to get photos of my finished products and update you all.

By: Cindi Bernloehr

Cindi Bernloehr — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:32:17 +0000

I have put a flat headpin through a bead cap and then glued a pearl into the cap and now I have a beautiful decorative headpin.

By: Barbara Jacquin

Barbara Jacquin — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:17:58 +0000

Claire, I couldn’t access that link. Do you know of another address? Thanks because I’m facing the same problem with pearls.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:52:43 +0000

A friend asked me to make a keepsake necklace for his wife from a gorgeous lavender malpeque oyster pearl he’d found shucking oysters. My initial plan was to fuse three “c” shaped argentium wires together and make a cage but I ran out of time and ordered a sterling cage from Rio. Very simple, very elegant and they’re both thrilled. I’m glad now that I “cheated” and got the premade cage because it has a hinge and the pearl can be removed so that the silver can be cleaned occasionally. Quahog pearls are rare and valuable and I found that out afterwards, so I’m glad I kept my workshop door closed to my thief of a poodle pup!

By: Pat Mulock

Pat Mulock — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:23:27 +0000

You might also glue them into bead caps after adding a wire loop to the end of the cap. Then you could hang them off chain to make a necklace, bracelet, or earrings. Also, how about creating a wire knitted tube and filling it with the pearls?

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:19:37 +0000

Make wire ‘cages’ for the pearls. Easy to do and easy to find free tutorials online to show you how. Either make something all in pearls or mix with gemstones, crystals, etc.

By: Marina Lombardi

Marina Lombardi — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:51:40 +0000

I would suggest you to use them embedded in a polymer clay base: I think that in this case the fact that beads are undrilled should be an advantage. Imagine a pendant with a cross or oval shape, wholly embedded and incrusted by beads, crystals, microbeads…isn’t it intriguing?

By: Claire.W

Claire.W — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:53:45 +0000

Checkout this idea:

lauren-elizabeth.co.uk/images/stories/press/gemstonesetting/gemstone%20settings%20by%20anastasia%20young%2002b.jpg

The cover picture of this book presents a pretty pearl pedant design, hope it would help you.

By: Sarah S.

Sarah S. — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:28:10 +0000

1) glue them to earring posts that have a cup on the end –
firemountaingems.com/itemdetails/h201661fn
(just snip out the post in the middle of the cup)
2) capture them in chainmaille –
mailleartisans.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=14581&sid=4b83d95c42dbcc049b9ea2a84a4554b2
3) prong set them.