Pearling may refer to:
Relating to actual pearls
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Pearl farming, which creates cultured pearls
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Pearl hunting
Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater. Pearl hunting was prevalent in India and Japan for tho ...
, the practice of diving for pearls and mother of pearl (nacre)
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Pearling in Western Australia
Pearling in Western Australia includes the harvesting and farming of both pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or ...
, which covers both pearl hunting and pearl farming
Other uses
* Pearling, a decorative metal
surface finishing
Surface finishing is a broad range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property. Finishing processes may be employed to: improve product appearance, adhesion or wettability, solderability, ...
technique
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Pearling (body modification), a form of genital beading
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Pearl growing, a search method where the information in one article is used to find further relevant articles on a subject
* An alternative spelling for purling, a term in
knitting
Knitting is a method for production of textile Knitted fabric, fabrics by interlacing yarn loops with loops of the same or other yarns. It is used to create many types of garments. Knitting may be done Hand knitting, by hand or Knitting machi ...
* Debranning, removing the bran of
pearl millet
Pearl millet (''Cenchrus americanus'', commonly known as the synonym ''Pennisetum glaucum'') is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and ...
See also
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Mother of pearl
Nacre ( , ), also known as mother-of-pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer. It is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent.
Nacre is ...
(nacre), the iridescent substance of which pearls and the inner layer of some shells are composed
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