Faceted Cube Beads
Incorporating faceted cube beads is a fantastic way to add dimension to even the simplest of designs. There are no limits in the ways you can use them.
Products: 174
Aquamarine 2.5mm Banded Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsAquamarine 3mm Table Cut Cube AAA - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsAtlantisite Stichtite 3mm Table Cut Cube - 15-16 Inch
Stichtite is a mineral, a carbonate of chromium and magnesium. Its color ranges from pink through lilac to a rich purple color. Discovered in 1910 ...
View full detailsLapis 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsRed Garnet 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Red Garnet is the most commonly known type of Garnet, which occurs in many colors. Garnet has been used for adornment and spirituality by myriad cu...
View full detailsBrazilian Amazonite 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...
View full detailsRed Jasper 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsTiger Eye 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsAfrican Jade 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Mookaite 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Mookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Ken...
View full detailsDendritic Agate 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Dendritic Agate is not banded like other Agates, and therefore is not an Agate in the strictest terms. Rather than banding, Dendritic Agate has bra...
View full detailsBlack Sardonyx 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Sardonyx has a Sard base, typically of brown or black, with bands of white Onyx running through it. Sard is not Onyx, but rather a dark variety of ...
View full detailsAfrican Petrified Wood Agate 6x8mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Petrified Wood Agate is formed from the petrifaction process of primeval trees over the course of many years. Petrification occurs when the wood is...
View full detailsBlue Apatite 4x6mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsBlue Tiger Eye 4x6mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Blue Tiger Eye is a naturally occurring dark stone with chatoyant layers that create a flash which seems to emanate from within the stone as they c...
View full detailsSmoky Quartz 4x6mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsAfrican Turquoise 4x6mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
African Turquoise is not actually Turquoise, but rather a speckled teal Jasper found in Africa and often treated to simulate the beautiful blue to ...
View full detailsWhite Howlite 4x6mm Corner Drilled Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
White Howlite is named for Canadian mineralogist Henry How, who first discovered the stone in Southern California in 1868. It is typically white or...
View full detailsHubei Turquoise 3mm Green Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Hubei Turquoise is sourced from Hubei Province in Northern China, one of the most recognized turquoise-producing regions in the world. This materia...
View full detailsYellow Green Tourmaline 3mm Banded Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Tourmaline is classified as a semiprecious stone and occurs in a vast array of colors, everything from colorless to black, from pastel to bright to...
View full detailsSmoky Quartz 3mm Banded Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsGreen Garnet 3mm Banded Table Cut Cube A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Green Garnet can be among the most valuable of garnets, which come in a variety of colors. Occurring in sizes ranging from a grain of sand to the s...
View full detailsCopper Rutilated Quartz 3mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Rutilated Quartz is a silicon dioxide mineral with unique needle to like inclusions of Rutile. These “needles” usually appear golden, but can also ...
View full detailsPink Opal 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Pink Opal is a variety of non to precious opal, meaning that it has lustre and some translucency without the fire or color play associated with pre...
View full detailsMixed Moonstone 3mm Table Cut Cube - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsLarimar 3mm Table Cut Cube AA Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Larimar is a translucent blue, turquoise and white stone that can have streaks and patterns of white, as well as red or brown either from oxidation...
View full detailsRed Garnet 3mm Table Cut Faceted Cube A Grade Beads - 15-16 Inch
Red Garnet is the most commonly known type of Garnet, which occurs in many colors. Garnet has been used for adornment and spirituality by myriad cu...
View full detailsOrange Garnet 3mm Table Cut Faceted Cube Beads - 15-16 Inch
Orange or Hessonite Garnet is sometimes called “Cinnamon Stone” for its orange to orange to brown color as well as for its origin in the land of sp...
View full detailsChampagne Garnet 3mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. All species of garnets possess simila...
View full detailsFluorite 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Fluorite is a luminous, soft and glassy stone, sometimes referred to as “the most colorful mineral in the world.” It is one of the most sought to a...
View full detailsHubei Turquoise 3mm Blue Green Table Cut Cube AA Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Hubei Turquoise is sourced from Hubei Province in Northern China, one of the most recognized turquoise-producing regions in the world. This materia...
View full detailsHubei Turquoise 3mm Blue Table Cut Cube AAA Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Hubei Turquoise is sourced from Hubei Province in Northern China, one of the most recognized turquoise-producing regions in the world. This materia...
View full detailsLapis (Dyed) 4mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsLapis (Dyed) 5mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsPeach Moonstone 6mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. Its soft chatoyancy is remini...
View full detailsAmazonite 5mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...
View full detailsPeach Moonstone 5mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. Its soft chatoyancy is remini...
View full detailsAmazonite 4mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch
Brazilian Amazonite is an opaque blue to green to light green stone, often occurring with inclusions of white, yellow or gray and occasionally tran...
View full detailsSeraphinite 2.5mm Table Cut Cube AAA Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Seraphinite's chatoyancy (optical reflectance) gives it a feathery appearance associated with angels (also known as seraphim.) Seraphinite is most ...
View full detailsRed Black Super Seven 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Super 7, also known as Melody's Stone, is a rare, naturally occurring rock composed of seven specific minerals: amethyst, clear quartz, smoky quart...
View full detailsBlue Tourmaline 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Blue Tourmaline ranges in color from green to blue to yellow to green with black, milky white and clear, colorless inclusions. It is an aluminum bo...
View full detailsTourmaline 3mm Banded Table Cut Cube - 15-16 Inch
Tourmaline is classified as a semiprecious stone and occurs in a vast array of colors, everything from colorless to black, from pastel to bright to...
View full detailsBlack Spinel 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Spinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide, and comes in a range of other colors, but those varieties are transparent. Black Spinel not onl...
View full detailsGolden Sunstone 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsSapphire 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Sapphires are precious gemstones, but unlike rubies, they come in a rainbow of colors besides red! They are all varieties of the mineral corundum,...
View full detailsPeridot 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
Peridot (pair-uh-doe) is one of only two gems, the other being Diamond, that is not formed in the Earth’s crust. Rather, it is born in the molten r...
View full detailsLapis 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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...
View full detailsLabradorite 3mm Table Cut Cube A Grade Bead - 15-16 Inch
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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Frequently asked questions
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What is a faceted cube bead?
A faceted cube is a six-sided bead cut from a square block, with each face polished flat and edges chamfered or beveled to add additional small facets at the corners. Dakota's faceted cubes are typically drilled corner-to-corner (diagonal) rather than face-to-face, so the bead sits on a point and shows two faces forward on the strand. The flat faces catch light in broad flashes rather than the sparkle pattern of a faceted round, giving a more architectural, geometric read on the strand. -
What sizes does Dakota stock in faceted cube?
Current stock runs from 2mm up to roughly 8–9mm, with 4mm the deepest size by product count (39 SKUs), followed by 2mm (26), 7mm (18), 6mm (13), 3mm (13), and 5mm (9). A small number of 2.5mm and 8–9mm options round out the range. The 2mm–3mm sizes are typical for delicate spacer work and layered chains; 4mm–7mm sit comfortably as the primary bead in bracelets and necklaces. Sizes are nominal — measure for tight-tolerance work and check the listing for exact dimensions. -
What stones come in faceted cube?
Dakota carries 155 active faceted cube SKUs across a wide stone range. Top counts include Turquoise (16), Tourmaline (10), Moonstone (9), Beryl (8), Chrysoprase (6), Opal (6), Aquamarine (6), Iolite (5), Morganite (5), and Amethyst (5), with additional stones in smaller counts. Treatment varies by stone — turquoise is commonly stabilized, beryl and aquamarine may be heated, and color-enhanced material exists in several lines. Treatment should be disclosed; ask before buying if it isn't specified. -
What jewelry does faceted cube work best for?
Faceted cubes shine in pieces where you want geometric structure alongside light play — strung bracelets, station necklaces, and minimalist earring drops where each bead reads as a distinct shape rather than blending into a curve. The corner-drilled orientation makes them sit point-down between knots or spacers, which works well for hand-knotted designs. They pair cleanly with smooth rounds, faceted rondelles, and metal cube spacers. Smaller 2mm–3mm cubes also work as accent beads between larger focals. -
Faceted cube vs smooth cube vs table-cut — what's the difference?
A smooth cube has six flat polished faces and no additional faceting. A faceted cube adds beveled corners or small facets at the edges, so light catches at the chamfers as well as the main faces. Table-cut cubes (sometimes sold under that name) typically have larger, deliberate corner facets that read almost as a separate cut. Dakota's faceted cubes sit in the middle — flat primary faces with chamfered edges — giving more sparkle than a smooth cube without losing the geometric silhouette. Check the product photo for the specific facet style on each SKU.