Faceted & Microfaceted Shaped Beads
Faceted gemstone beads turn light into the sparkle line of a design — every strand here is cut with flat, polished planes, from classic faceted rounds and rondelles to table-cut cubes, coins, energy prisms, and lanterns. Beads 6mm and up are our standard faceted cuts; under 6mm we call them microfaceted — dozens of tiny facets that read as continuous shimmer on 2–5mm beads.
The specs designers ask about first: sizes run 2mm through 10mm, deepest at 3–4mm and 8mm. Standard strands are 15–16 inch with 0.8–1.1mm holes — comfortable on beading wire, silk, or doubled thread — and about 70 large-hole styles (2–2.5mm holes) come on 8-inch strands for leather and knotted cord. Roughly 70 stones are in stock faceted right now, led by tourmaline, quartz, garnet, labradorite, and Hubei turquoise, and grades and treatments (plated, dyed, lab-made CZ and terahertz) are stated in every product title.
Every strand is checked in Minnesota for facet consistency, color, and grade before it ships, and the promise is simple: every bead on the strand is usable. Filter by stone, size, or shape to narrow to exactly what your project needs.
Labradorite 5x7mm Faceted Irregular Rondelle AA Grade - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$47.00
-
Original price
$47.00
Original price
$47.00
$47.00
-
$47.00
Labradorite is remarkable for the way its aggregate layers refract light, creating iridescent flashes of blue, gold, pale green or copper red. This...
View full details
Original price
$47.00
-
Original price
$47.00
Original price
$47.00
$47.00
-
$47.00
Green Amethyst 3x5mm Faceted Rondelle 15-16
Original price
$68.00
-
Original price
$68.00
Original price
$68.00
$68.00
-
$68.00
Original price
$68.00
-
Original price
$68.00
Original price
$68.00
$68.00
-
$68.00
Iolite 4-7mm Faceted Rondelle - 18 Inch
Original price
$56.00
-
Original price
$56.00
Original price
$56.00
$56.00
-
$56.00
Iolite most commonly occurs in shades of blue to gray, violet or indigo. It displays a visual property called “pleochroism,” which means that it ca...
View full details
Original price
$56.00
-
Original price
$56.00
Original price
$56.00
$56.00
-
$56.00
Peach Moonstone 5x8mm Faceted Rondelle - 18 Inch
Original price
$79.00
-
Original price
$79.00
Original price
$79.00
$79.00
-
$79.00
Moonstone naturally occurs in a broad spectrum of colors, but is most commonly associated with white, gray and peach. Its soft chatoyancy is remins...
View full details
Original price
$79.00
-
Original price
$79.00
Original price
$79.00
$79.00
-
$79.00
Hubei Turquoise 2x5mm Faceted Rondelle AAA - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$117.00
-
Original price
$117.00
Original price
$117.00
$117.00
-
$117.00
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 details
Original price
$117.00
-
Original price
$117.00
Original price
$117.00
$117.00
-
$117.00
Hubei Turquoise 4x10mm Faceted Rondelle AAA 15-16 Inch
Original price
$405.00
-
Original price
$405.00
Original price
$405.00
$405.00
-
$405.00
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 details
Original price
$405.00
-
Original price
$405.00
Original price
$405.00
$405.00
-
$405.00
Larimar 3x4mm Faceted Rondelle A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$45.00
-
Original price
$45.00
Original price
$45.00
$45.00
-
$45.00
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 details
Original price
$45.00
-
Original price
$45.00
Original price
$45.00
$45.00
-
$45.00
Strawberry Quartz 2x4mm Thin Faceted Rondelle - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$18.00
-
Original price
$18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00
-
$18.00
Strawberry Quartz is a translucent, milky to pink silicon dioxide mineral. Its needle to like inclusions of hematite are iridescent red. Quartz has...
View full details
Original price
$18.00
-
Original price
$18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00
-
$18.00
Blue Topaz 4x6mm Faceted Rondelle A Grade - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$36.00
-
Original price
$36.00
Original price
$36.00
$36.00
-
$36.00
Topaz is a rare silicate mineral and obtains much of its popularity from its beautiful colors and its status as a birthstone. Topaz occurs in a wi...
View full details
Original price
$36.00
-
Original price
$36.00
Original price
$36.00
$36.00
-
$36.00
Diopside 2x3mm Faceted Rondelle AAA Grade - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$68.00
-
Original price
$68.00
Original price
$68.00
$68.00
-
$68.00
Diopside is a calcium and magnesium silicate mineral. It is transparent or translucent, and can display a nearly emerald green color due to the pre...
View full details
Original price
$68.00
-
Original price
$68.00
Original price
$68.00
$68.00
-
$68.00
Hubei Turquoise 3x8mm Faceted Rondelle AAA - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$252.00
-
Original price
$252.00
Original price
$252.00
$252.00
-
$252.00
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 details
Original price
$252.00
-
Original price
$252.00
Original price
$252.00
$252.00
-
$252.00
Terahertz 10mm Lantern Faceted - 15-16 Inch
Original price
$43.00
-
Original price
$43.00
Original price
$43.00
$43.00
-
$43.00
Terahertz is a spectacular man made ore. It shines and sparkles like a diamond making it an exceptional addition to any jewelry piece. It has treme...
View full details
Original price
$43.00
-
Original price
$43.00
Original price
$43.00
$43.00
-
$43.00
Dog Teeth Amethyst 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$18.00
-
Original price
$18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00
-
$18.00
Dog Teeth Amethyst has a purple and white striped appearance due to its combination of Amethyst and White Quartz. The name derives from the recurri...
View full details
Original price
$18.00
-
Original price
$18.00
Original price
$18.00
$18.00
-
$18.00
Lapis 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$36.00
-
Original price
$36.00
Original price
$36.00
$36.00
-
$36.00
Lapis, or Lapis Lazuli, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. D...
View full details
Original price
$36.00
-
Original price
$36.00
Original price
$36.00
$36.00
-
$36.00
Onyx 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$14.00
-
Original price
$14.00
Original price
$14.00
$14.00
-
$14.00
Onyx is a black and white banded Chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline Quartz. It is often thought of as an all-black stone, and much of the black Onyx o...
View full details
Original price
$14.00
-
Original price
$14.00
Original price
$14.00
$14.00
-
$14.00
Amazonite 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$16.00
-
Original price
$16.00
Original price
$16.00
$16.00
-
$16.00
Amazonite is a member of the feldspar family, Amazonite, also known as Amazon Stone, ranges in color from blue-green to green. It is an opaque ston...
View full details
Original price
$16.00
-
Original price
$16.00
Original price
$16.00
$16.00
-
$16.00
Blue Crazy Lace Agate 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$17.00
-
Original price
$17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00
-
$17.00
Blue Crazy Lace Agate is actually Mexican Crazy Lace Agate that has been color enhanced with blue to bring out the beautiful patterns in the stone....
View full details
Original price
$17.00
-
Original price
$17.00
Original price
$17.00
$17.00
-
$17.00
Rose Quartz 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$21.00
-
Original price
$21.00
Original price
$21.00
$21.00
-
$21.00
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...
View full details
Original price
$21.00
-
Original price
$21.00
Original price
$21.00
$21.00
-
$21.00
Lapis 4mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$23.00
-
Original price
$23.00
Original price
$23.00
$23.00
-
$23.00
Lapis, or Lapis Lazuli, is a deep blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. D...
View full details
Original price
$23.00
-
Original price
$23.00
Original price
$23.00
$23.00
-
$23.00
African Turquoise 8mm Faceted Rondelle 8-Inch
Original price
$19.00
-
Original price
$19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00
-
$19.00
African Turquoise is not actually Turquoise, but rather a speckled teal Jasper found in Africa and often treated to simulate the beautiful blue-gre...
View full details
Original price
$19.00
-
Original price
$19.00
Original price
$19.00
$19.00
-
$19.00
Faceted Rondelle Beads
A rondelle is a workhorse shape — flattened, low-profile, and built to stack tight — so faceting it turns every one of those flat planes into a hit of light instead of one flat surface doing all the work. It's the shape most designers reach for first: small enough to spacer between focals, substantial enough to carry a strand on its own. We drill for consistency, with holes sized to handle real stringing wire rather than just beading cord, and we carry the cut from 2mm up to 12mm across birthstones, cardinal gems, and specialty stones like Rainbow Moonstone. A wide selection here isn't a bonus — it's what actually lets a design get finished.
Faceted Round Beads
The round is the most trusted shape in jewelry design, and faceting it doesn't change that — it sharpens it. Each bead is cut with dozens of flat planes (32 to 64 facets on the smaller sizes) that turn a stone's natural shine into individual points of light instead of one soft glow. It's still the round every designer already knows how to build with — same predictable drill, same reliable drape — just with more going on when it catches light. We stock the cut from 2mm to 10mm, with the deepest range at 3mm and 4mm, so the sizes designers reach for most are also the ones we're never light on.
Faceted Coin Beads
A coin bead is just a flat round — what earns ours a second look is the face. Dakota's faceted coins carry a precise square-facet cut that reads as a checkerboard when the light hits it, plus our newer "star cut" option: a six-sided geometric star with a tabletop face for an entirely different kind of shine. Both come with a puffed edge, holes drilled to fit up to 20 gauge wire, and a cutting process efficient enough to keep an intricate cut at a genuinely low price point. Stocked in 4mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, and select 12mm sizes across 50+ stone types.
Frequently asked questions
-
What's the difference between faceted and microfaceted beads?
Both are cut with flat, polished planes that catch light — the difference is facet count and size. A standard faceted bead carries fewer, larger facets, so each plane reads as a distinct flash. A microfaceted bead is covered in dozens of much smaller facets, giving a fine, continuous shimmer instead of individual sparkles. Microfaceting is a small-bead cut — it shows best at 2–4mm — while standard faceting runs the full 2mm–10mm range. -
What faceted cuts does Dakota stock?
The deepest runs are faceted rounds (about 340 active options), table-cut cubes (about 175), and faceted rondelles (about 165), followed by faceted coins, microfaceted rounds, energy prisms, faceted hearts, tri-cut rondelles, and faceted lanterns. Several cuts also have their own collection pages — microfaceted rounds, microfaceted rondelles, faceted cubes, faceted lanterns, and faceted saucers — if you want to browse a single shape in depth. -
What sizes do faceted gemstone beads come in?
Current stock runs 2mm through 10mm, with the deepest counts at 4mm, 8mm, and 3mm. Rondelles also come in flattened profiles like 2x3mm, 3x4mm, 4x6mm, and 6x8mm — height first, then width. Most strands are 15–16 inch; around 70 large-hole options come on 8-inch strands for leather and thicker cord. -
What stones come in faceted cuts?
Roughly 70 stones are in stock faceted right now. Tourmaline, quartz, Hubei turquoise, garnet, labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, lapis, ruby, and aquamarine carry the deepest counts — harder, finer-grained materials dominate because they hold a crisp facet edge. The collection also includes lab-made cubic zirconia and terahertz, plus metallic-plated hematite and labradorite; every treatment is identified in the product title. -
How do I choose the right faceted cut for a design?
Match the cut to the job. Faceted rounds are the all-purpose sparkle bead; rondelles pack more beads per inch, so they're the stacking and spacer choice; table-cut cubes add geometric structure; coins give flat flash for earrings and pendants; energy prisms and hearts work as focals. For fine, continuous shimmer in delicate work, use microfaceted rounds or rondelles at 2–4mm. Mixing faceted accents into smooth strands is the classic move — the sparkle reads deliberate instead of busy.