# Pearling

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**Pearling** may refer to:

## Relating to actual pearls

- [Pearl farming](/source/Pearl_farming), which creates cultured pearls
- [Pearl hunting](/source/Pearl_hunting), the practice of diving for pearls and mother of pearl (nacre)
- [Pearling in Western Australia](/source/Pearling_in_Western_Australia), which covers both pearl hunting and pearl farming

## Other uses

- Pearling, a decorative metal [surface finishing](/source/Surface_finishing) technique
- [Pearling (body modification)](/source/Pearling_(body_modification)), a form of genital beading
- [Pearl growing](/source/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](/source/Knitting)
- Debranning, removing the bran of [pearl millet](/source/Pearl_millet)

## See also

- [Mother of pearl](/source/Mother_of_pearl) (nacre), the iridescent substance of which pearls and the inner layer of some shells are composed

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