[Jewelry making - Article 01320] - [Orchid] Resurrecting old pearls

[Helen Hill]

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    I'm hoping someone can give me advice regarding some old faux
    pearls. My mother-in-law has asked me to restring a set of faux
    pearls that belonged to her late mother. She said she knows they're
    not good quality pearls but that they mean so much to her as it's the
    only thing she still has that belonged to her mother and she'd like
    to be able to wear them. 

    They are a sort of champagne colour and a lot of the beads are in
    poor condition - there are three beads that hang from the clasp and
    only the glass remains, with virtually no coating on them at all.
    They all need a good clean but I'm not sure how to clean glass faux
    pearls where the coating is very poor and non-existent in some
    places, obviously without causing any more damage to what coating
    remains. I've not strung pearls before but I have seen instructions
    on many sites on the internet so that shouldn't be too much of a
    problem. I'll need to buy some silk to string them and probably a
    bead board so I can graduate them without them rolling all over the
    place! Am I right in thinking that the silk has to be pre-stretched?
    Any advice on this job would be much appreciated. 

Helen
UK
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