How are pearls made?

Pearls are smooth, rounded beads formed within a shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix. The mollusks deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object( like a grain of sand) in the mollusks mouth. Then years later you open the mollusk and it has formed a beautiful pearl. The pearls are imported in and handcrafted by us to make in order to make this gorgeous jewelry.