Pearling

Pearling may refer to:

Relating to actual pearls

• Pearl farming, which creates cultured pearls
• Pearl hunting, the practice of diving for pearls and mother of pearl (nacre)
• Pearling in Western Australia, which covers both pearl hunting and pearl farming

Other uses

• Pearling, a decorative metal surface finishing technique
• Pearling (body modification), a form of genital beading
• 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
• Debranning, removing the bran of pearl millet

See also

• Mother of pearl (nacre), the iridescent substance of which pearls and the inner layer of some shells are composed