What kind of tortoiseshell beads are of the highest quality, and what are tortoiseshell jewelry?

Hawksbill. The darker the beads for their color, the better.

Deep red is the top grade, followed by bright red, and light red is second.

Tortoiseshell is the main material of handicrafts in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is loved by craftsmen in the Ming and Qing dynasties because of its yellow color, fine material, soft texture and aroma. The tortoiseshell crafts that have been handed down to this day are also very valuable. The workmanship is fine, and the preservation of the complete is more expensive for the collection.

Good tortoiseshell beads are translucent, soft luster, translucent and bright, with a sense of warmth, and there are colorful black-brown markings inside, which are made up of countless dots of different sizes, the denser the dots, the darker the color, the clearer, beautiful and transparent markings, especially the change of shade and natural interest.

Under the premise of no counterfeiting and no splicing, the beads with high transparency or good moistness, large and wide are of the highest quality.

In China, the first and full blood are more expensive, and the ordinary black and yellow flowers are cheaper, but there is no formal rating system

**Highest" White Armor (Transparent Pale Armor) >Orange Armor" White Armor (Transparent in tone, dotted with black) >Pure Black Armor" Intense Red Armor "Ordinary Red Armor (Dark Red)> Flower Armor (Light, Dark Half) > Ordinary Armor (Dark Color Majority) "**Lowest".

High-quality tortoiseshell beads are expensive, and there are more and more imitations, don't just look at the intuitive effect when buying, take a magnifying glass to see the multiple hearts and eyes of the pigment point.

Tortoiseshell, since ancient times won the favor of the nobles or businessmen of the past dynasties, regarded as a heirloom, is a symbol of longevity, the tortoiseshell armor can be used to make exquisite ornaments, the famous poem of the Han Dynasty "Peacock Flying Southeast" has the verse of "the foot is on silk shoes, and the tortoiseshell light on the head". The Huidong Port Nature Reserve established in Guangdong Province is mainly to protect turtles such as hawksbill turtles and green sea turtles. For example, Wu Zetian, the empress of the Tang Dynasty, used tortoiseshell to make combs, fans, piano boards, hairpins, and even entire tortoiseshell specimens.

Natural golden yellow, blood red, unbonded large beads are of the highest grade, all made of old tortoiseshell scales, relatively rare.

"Hello: 1. The hawksbill turtle is a small sea turtle with a shell length of about half a meter. Vertebrates, reptiles, turtles.

It is generally about a meter long, and the largest one can reach a meter. There are two pairs of forehead scales on the top of the head, and the upper jaw is hooked. The cuticular plates on the back are arranged in a tile-like pattern with a smooth, brown surface.

The shield on its carapace is arranged in a tile-like pattern, the vertebral shield is diamond-shaped, and the free edge of the rear edge shield is uneven and jagged, and the total number of shields is thirteen, so it is also called thirteen edges. Adult tortoiseshell carapaces are a vivid yellowish-brown color and are an excellent raw material for the manufacture of spectacle frames and other craft openings.

2. The ornaments made of tortoiseshell carapace are tortoiseshell ornaments. "

What kind of thing is a tortoiseshell?