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Faceted & Microfaceted Shaped Beads

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.
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Blue Apatite 6mm Star Cut Coin A Grade - 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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Red Garnet 4x6mm Faceted Rondelle Beads - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Terahertz 6mm Lantern Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Brazilian Amazonite 4x6mm Faceted Rondelle - 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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Prehnite 6mm Coin Faceted A Grade - 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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Strawberry Quartz Natural 6-7mm Table Cut Cube - 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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Lapis 6mm Energy Prism Faceted A Grade - 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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Rhodochrosite 6mm Coin Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Rhodochrosite is a bubblegum pink to rose red stone, with occasional inclusions of creamy white and dark grey. A manganese carbonate material of th...

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Cacoxenite 4x6mm Rondelle Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Cacoxenite is the trade name for this naturally occurring blend of seven stone types. It was originally named for the visible inclusions of the min...

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Golden Sunstone 4x6mm Rondelle Faceted - 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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Lepidolite Natural 6-7mm Table Cut Cube - 15-16 Inch

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A particularly soft stone, Lepidolite has a glassy or lustrous sheen. It is the most abundant lithium-bearing mineral as well as a significant sour...

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Aquamarine (multi) 6mm Star Cut Round 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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Orange Garnet 6mm Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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African Turquoise 6mm Faceted Lantern A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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African Turquoise is not actually Turquoise, but rather a speckled teal Jasper found in Africa and often treated to simulate the beautiful blue to ...

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Brazillian Amazonite 6mm Star Cut Coin 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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Multi Tourmaline 6mm Double Heart Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Brazilian Amazonite 6mm Double Heart Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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African Turquoise 6mm Star Cut Coin A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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African Turquoise is not actually Turquoise, but rather a speckled teal Jasper found in Africa and often treated to simulate the beautiful blue to ...

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Red Garnet 6mm Faceted Lantern - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Citrine 4x6mm Faceted Rondelle 15-16 Inch

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Citrine is a transparent Quartz, ranging in color from pale yellow to golden yellow, honey or brown, giving it a similar appearance to Topaz. It ma...

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Peach Moonstone 6mm Double Heart Faceted A Grade - 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 remins...

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Amethyst 6mm Star Cut Coin 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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Peach Moonstone 6mm Table Cut Cube 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 remini...

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Rainbow Quartz 6mm Energy Prism Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Blue Moonstone 4x6mm Rondelle Faceted - 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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Smoky Quartz 6mm Star Cut Coin - 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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Blue Topaz 6mm Faceted Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Black Gold Amazonite 6mm Faceted Round Banded - 15-16 Inch

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Black Gold Amazonite is a member of the Feldspar family and varies in hue from robin’s egg blue to blue-green to black, occasionally mingled with r...

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Labradorite 6mm Faceted Lantern 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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Green Lodalite Quartz 6-7mm Table Cut Cube Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Green Lodalite is Quartz with inclusions of sand. These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens....

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Rainbow Moonstone 6mm Coin Faceted A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Rainbow Moonstone is named for its moon-like glow or chatoyancy, as well as a prismatic quality that differentiates it from other varieties of Moon...

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Red Creek Jasper 6mm Star Cut Coin - 15-16 Inch

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Red Creek Jasper is named for the Red River in china where the stone was recently discovered. Its colors include burnt red, mustard yellow, olive g...

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Multi Spinel 6mm Faceted Banded Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Green Garnet 6mm Star Cut Faceted Coin Beads - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Labradorite 6mm Double Heart Faceted - 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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Iolite 6mm Double Heart Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Golden Sunstone 6mm Double Heart Faceted - 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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Ruby 6mm Rondelle Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Ruby is a precious gemstone known for its deep red color. It is a variety of the mineral corundum, the second-hardest mineral next to diamond . The...

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Rose Quartz 6mm Star Cut Coin - 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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Sapphire 6mm Dark Blue Faceted Round A Grade - 15-16 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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Red Hematoid Quartz 6mm Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch

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Hematoid Quartz is Quartz with inclusions of hematite. The hematite inclusions are responsible for the stone’s color, which can be yellow, orange, ...

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Diopside 6mm Faceted Round A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Lapis 6mm Star Cut Coin A Grade - 15-16 Inch

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Sodalite 6mm Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch

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Sodalite is named for its sodium content and may be classified as a feldspathoid. Blue Sodalite is sometimes referred to as “poor man’s lapis” beca...

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Pietersite 6mm Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch

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Pietersite has been called the Tempest Stone for its colors of deep blue and gray with metallic gold and flashes of brilliant chatoyancy as it catc...

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Iolite 4x6mm Faceted Rondelle - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Rhodochrosite 4x6mm Rondelle Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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Rhodochrosite is a bubblegum pink to rose red stone, with occasional inclusions of creamy white and dark grey. A manganese carbonate material of th...

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Golden Topaz 6mm Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch

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Faceted Rondelle Beads

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

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

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.