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Faceted Shapes

Faceted Shapes

Faceted shapes are gemstone beads cut with flat, polished planes across a sculpted profile, so the outline gives a strand its structure and the facets give it sparkle. This collection gathers the fancy faceted cuts: swirl ovals and rice beads, faceted and puff squares and six-point star beads at 6–8mm, ovals, rectangles and triangle-cut puff ovals around 8x10mm, and marquise beads at the statement size of 10x16mm. Every option comes as a 15–16 inch strand.

More than 30 stones are cut this way — amethyst, labradorite, lapis, garnet, aquamarine, carnelian, tiger eye, sodalite, amazonite, peach moonstone and the full quartz family among them. Use marquise and rectangles as centerpieces, rice beads and swirl ovals for texture, and squares, stars and triangle-cut puff ovals as accents — mixing one faceted shape into smooth rounds keeps the sparkle looking deliberate.

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Lapis 10x16mm Faceted Marquise A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Lapis is a semi to precious stone and one of the most sought after throughout history. It is highly regarded for its beautiful blue color flecked w...

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Strawberry Quartz 10x16mm Faceted Marquise Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Strawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has...

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Smoky Quartz 10x16mm Faceted Marquise Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Smoky Quartz is a translucent smoky brown or gray variety of Quartz. It ranges from almost completely transparent to an almost opaque brownish to g...

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Green Aventurine 10x16mm Faceted Marquise Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Green Aventurine is a green translucent quartz with glimmering metallic inclusions. Green is the most common color for Aventurine, but it can also ...

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Blue Rose Quartz 10x16mm Faceted Marquise Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Labradorite 10x16mm Faceted Marquise Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...

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Rose Quartz 9x13mm Long Faceted Heart Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Prehnite 9x13mm Long Faceted Heart Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer, Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn. Von Prehn discovered the stone in South...

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Tiger Eye 9x13mm Long Faceted Heart A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate f...

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Black Obsidian 9x13mm Long Faceted Heart Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Essentially a volcanic glass, Obsidian ranges in color from opaque black, to green, brown, mahogany, black with rainbow colors, black with snowflak...

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Black Obsidian 8mm Faceted Star Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Essentially a volcanic glass, Obsidian ranges in color from opaque black, to green, brown, mahogany, black with rainbow colors, black with snowflak...

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Magnesite 8mm (Dyed) Turquoise Faceted Star Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Magnesite is a soft mineral best known for being dyed to imitate other gemstones. Natural magnesite stones are usually white with a dark web-like p...

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Brazilian Amazonite 8mm Faceted Star Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...

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Amazonite 6-15mm Graduated Faceted Nugget Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...

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Peach Moonstone 5-8x8-10mm Handcut Faceted Nugget Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. Its soft chatoyancy is ramini...

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Yellow Opal 8x10mm Handcut Faceted Nugget Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Yellow Opal is transparent to opaque, milky white to pale yellow in color. It sometimes features dark brown to black dendritic inclusions that bran...

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Prehnite 6x10mm Handcut Faceted Nugget Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Prehnite was the first mineral to be named after a person: its discoverer, Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn. Von Prehn discovered the stone in South...

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Rose Quartz 8mm Faceted Star Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Purple "Pimpleback" Shell 8x16mm Faceted Rectangle Bead - 15-16 Inch

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A "pimpleback" is a freshwater mussel (Cyclonaias pustulosa) common in North American rivers, characterized by a thick, yellow-brown to brown shell...

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Aquamarine 3x6-5x6mm Long Drill Faceted Nugget Beads AA Grade- 15-16 Inch

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Aquamarine is a transparent to translucent stone ranging from cerulean blue to light blue in higher grades. In lower grades it can be transparent t...

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Sapphire 4-12mm Graduated Faceted Oval - 17 Inch

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Sapphires are precious gemstones, but unlike rubies, they come in a rainbow of colors besides red! They are all varieties of the mineral corundum,...

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Lavender Amethyst 8mm Faceted Puff Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Lavender Amethyst is a transparent lavender variety of Amethyst, which forms in geodes and is generally found in clusters of crystal points. The pr...

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Sunstone 8mm Faceted Puff Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Sunstone, a variety of Feldspar, is aptly named for its shades of gold, orange, red and brown, as well as its iridescent sparkle. As the stone catc...

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Crystal Quartz 8mm Faceted Puff Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Crystal Quartz is a naturally occurring clear and colorless Quartz. It is a crystalline form of Quartz said to have many divine properties includin...

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Brazilian Amazonite 8mm Faceted Puff Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...

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Tiger Eye 8mm Faceted Puff Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate f...

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Moonstone 8mm Faceted Puff Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. It's soft chatoyancy is remin...

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Blue Rose Quartz 8x10mm Faceted Rectangle - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Blue Rose Quartz 8mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Rose Quartz 9x13mm Faceted Free Form Rectangle - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye 14mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye is a macrocrystalline Quartz stone with bands of rich golds and browns. Its chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate f...

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Black Obsidian 14mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Essentially a volcanic glass, Obsidian ranges in color from opaque black, to green, brown, mahogany, black with rainbow colors, black with snowflak...

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Blue Aventurine 14mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Aventurine is a form of quartz, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give a shimmering or glistening...

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Red Jasper 14mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Red Jasper is an aggregate of microcrystalline quartz and/or chalcedony and other minerals. The opaque stone’s red color is due to high iron conten...

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Lemon Quartz 14mm Faceted Star - 15-16 Inch

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Lemon Quartz is a trade name for color-enhanced yellow quartz. Gamma ray irradiation, followed by a mild heat treatment gives it the bright yellow ...

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Blue Rose Quartz 14mm Faceted Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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Lapis 14mm Faceted Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Lapis is a semi to precious stone and one of the most sought after throughout history. It is highly regarded for its beautiful blue color flecked w...

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Labradorite 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...

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Crystal Quartz 14mm Faceted Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Crystal Quartz is a naturally occurring clear and colorless Quartz. It is a crystalline form of Quartz said to have many divine properties includin...

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Amethyst 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Amethyst is a beautiful purple stone, known as a “Gem of Fire” by ancient cultures. It has been greatly sought after throughout history and was at ...

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Brazilian Amazonite 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...

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Strawberry Quartz 14mm Faceted Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Strawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has...

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Black Obsidian 14mm Faceted Heart - 15-16 Inch

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Essentially a volcanic glass, Obsidian ranges in color from opaque black, to green, brown, mahogany, black with rainbow colors, black with snowflak...

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Rose Quartz 14mm Faceted Heart A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Rose Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal and one of the most common varieties of the Quartz family. It is a translucent to transparent stone with a...

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African Petrified Wood Agate 7x8mm Faceted Round Nugget - 15-16 Inch

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Petrified Wood Agate is formed from the petrifaction process of primeval trees over the course of many years. Petrification occurs when the wood is...

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Brazilian Amazonite 7x8mm Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Tiger Eye 7x8mm Faceted Rice Bead A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Apatite 7x8mm Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Apatite ranges in color from light teal to blue to bright blue to dark blue to green. It can be easily confused with other minerals due to its...

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More Than a Faceted Round

More Than a Faceted Round

A fancy faceted shape does two jobs at once. The silhouette — a marquise point, a rice barrel, a puffed square, a six-point star — carries the design, while the flat cut planes across it break light into distinct flashes instead of one soft glow. That's what sets this collection apart from plain faceted rounds: the outline gives a strand its structure and the facets give it sparkle, so one strand can stand on its own. Shapes range from the everyday-useful 7x8mm swirl oval and rice bead to statement cuts like the 10x16mm marquise and the 8x10mm triangle-cut puff oval. Every strand is 15–16 inch and drilled straight through for real stringing.
Cut, Color & Grade

Cut, Color & Grade

Faceting is only as good as its edges, so we hold the facet planes crisp and keep holes consistent enough to string on wire, not just cord. These are natural stones, so color and pattern shift bead to bead — that variation is the material, not a flaw — and where a strand runs more tightly matched we mark it "A Grade." When a color is enhanced we say so right in the product title, like our Magnesite (Dyed) Turquoise; stones such as amethyst, labradorite, lapis and garnet carry their natural color. Read the title and you'll always know exactly what you're stringing.
Pick Your Shape & Size

Pick Your Shape & Size

Match the shape to the job. Marquise (10x16mm) and rectangles (8x10–9x13mm) read as centerpieces; rice beads and swirl ovals (7x8mm) add texture down a strand; faceted and puff squares (6–8mm) and star beads work as rhythm and accent; triangle-cut puff ovals (8x10mm) sit between the two. Hardness runs from softer, dyed pieces like magnesite and howlite (about Mohs 3.5) up to garnet and the quartz family (7–7.5), so keep softer and color-treated strands away from water and chemicals and wipe everything with a soft cloth. Mixing one faceted shape into a run of smooth rounds is the reliable move — the sparkle reads deliberate instead of busy.

Frequently asked questions

  • What makes these different from plain faceted round beads?
    Every bead here is a fancy faceted shape rather than a plain round — a sculpted profile (swirl oval, rice, puff square, six-point star, marquise, rectangle, triangle-cut puff oval, oval or free form) with flat cut planes across it. The silhouette gives the strand its structure and the facets throw the light, so a single strand can carry a design on its own instead of just spacing between focals.
  • What shapes and sizes are in this collection?
    Swirl ovals and rice beads run 7x8mm; faceted and puff squares and star beads are 6–8mm; ovals, rectangles and triangle-cut puff ovals are around 8x10mm; free-form rectangles are 9x13mm; and marquise beads are the statement size at 10x16mm. Every option is a 15–16 inch strand.
  • What stones come in these faceted shapes?
    More than 30, including amethyst, labradorite, lapis, garnet, aquamarine, carnelian, citrine, tiger eye, sodalite, amazonite, peach moonstone, obsidian and blue apatite, plus the full quartz family — crystal, smoky, rose, strawberry, rutilated and hematoid. Harder, fine-grained stones dominate because they hold a crisp facet edge.
  • Are the colors natural, or are any treated?
    Most are natural stones, so color and pattern shift from bead to bead — that variation is the material, not a defect. Where a color is enhanced we say so in the product title, like our Magnesite (Dyed) Turquoise, and more tightly matched strands are marked "A Grade." Read the title and you'll always know what you're getting.
  • How do I use faceted shapes in a design, and how do I care for them?
    Use marquise and rectangles as centerpieces, rice beads and swirl ovals for texture along a strand, and squares, stars and triangle-cut puff ovals as accents — mixing one faceted shape into smooth rounds keeps the sparkle looking deliberate. Hardness ranges from softer, dyed pieces like magnesite and howlite (around Mohs 3.5) up to garnet and quartz (7–7.5), so wipe beads with a soft cloth and keep softer or color-treated strands away from water and chemicals.