Discover our half drilled freshwater cultured pearls collection, perfect for rings, pendants and small earrings. Because cultured pearls are organic matters, each pearl is unique and can have some differences with the photo. Fresh water pearls are cultured pearls that only comes from specific mussels. Those cultured pearls are characterized by a thick and high quality mother-of-pearl. They're also famous for being very round and having a really nice shape. Fresh water pearls offer many subtle colors and delicate hues such as cream, golden, pinkish, champagne, white... China is now the first producer of fresh water pearls in the world and these chinese cultured pearls are renowned for their gorgeous lustre and very good quality. The first fresh water cultured pearls came from the Biwa lake in Japan, that's why they're sometimes (still) called "Biwa Pearls".