Keshi is a term traditionally used to describe natural saltwater pearls as well as pearls resulting as a byproduct of the Japanese culturing process. However today, the word keshi is now used to describe any pearl without a bead nucleus that is produced by the culturing process regardless of the ocean or freshwater body in which the pearl comes from.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:52 pm It funny how these dyed freshwater (green pink) pearls that look irregular are called keshi. I think something should be done by the industry. Its like calling cz’s diamonds Mike