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Square Beads

Our square bead collection includes single drilled, donuts, cabochons, and square chips. Square beads make for a unique addition and can be used in any necklace, bracelet, or earring design.

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Peach Moonstone 8mm Faceted Square 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. It's soft chatoyancy is remin...

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Amazonite 8mm Faceted Square 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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Rose Quartz 3x6mm Square Rondelle 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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Picture Jasper 3x6mm Square Rondelle - 15-16 Inch

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Picture Jasper is a form of brown Jasper characterized by its unique banding and flow patterns created by petrified or silicate mud and occasional ...

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Amethyst 3x6mm Square Rondelle 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 3x6mm Square 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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Tiger Eye 3x6mm Square Rondelle - 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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Labradorite 3x6mm Square Rondelle 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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Lapis (Dyed) 3x6mm Square Rondelle - 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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African Turquoise 3x6mm Square Rondelle - 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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Dumortierite 3x6mm Square Rondelle - 15-16 Inch

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Dumortierite is an aluminum borosilicate mineral that varies in color from blue, green and brown to the more rare violet and pink. First described ...

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New Jade 8mm Faceted Square - 8-Inch Strands

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Jade is the industry name for this beautiful green stone. Ours is actually a Serpentine, but takes a trained eye and a microscope to discern the di...

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Ice Obsidian 12mm Square - 8-Inch

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Ice Obsidian is a light brown to green to gray volcanic stone. Obsidian is formed when felsic lava cools without crystal growth. It is sometimes us...

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TIger Iron 16mm A Grade Square Cabochon

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Composed mostly of tiger's eye, red jasper and black hematite, Tiger Iron has long been popular with jewelry-makers. The gold, silver, brown and re...

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Unakite 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 15-16 Inch

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Unakite is a granite composed of pink Feldspar and Epidote, creating a beautiful blend of pink and green in mottled patterns. The colors in this st...

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Tiger Eye 1x2mm 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 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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Strawberry Quartz 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 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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Green Aventurine 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 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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Snowflake Sodalite 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 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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Brazilian Amazonite 1x2mm Square Rondelle - 15-16 Inch

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Natural Chinese Turquoise 8mm Square Cabochon

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Hubei Turquoise is sourced from Hubei Province in Northern China, one of the most recognized turquoise-producing regions in the world. This materia...

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Green Aventurine 6mm Square Faceted - 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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Labradorite 6mm Square 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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Sodalite 6mm Square Faceted - 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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Pink Opal 6mm Square Faceted - 15-16 Inch

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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...

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Aqua (Dyed) Impression Jasper 12mm Double Drill - 8-Inch

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Impression Jasper comes in a variety of colors and possibly more names. The material comes with variety of tan and crimson matrix colors which crea...

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Opalite Pink (Synthetic) 10mm Puff Square - 15-16 inch - CLEARANCE

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Opalite is the trade name for man to made glass treated to exhibit the internal flashes of true Opals in translucent samples, and opalescence or lu...

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Pink Impression Jasper 14mm Irregular Gold-Plated Square Connector Pendant

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Impression Jasper comes in a variety of colors and possibly more names. The material comes with variety of tan and crimson matrix colors which crea...

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Green Brecciated Jasper 50mm Square Donut - Pendant

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This stone is composed of angular fragments of minerals. Pyhsically, it is found in a pale and earthy green. Metaphysically it is often used for st...

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Onyx 40mm Square Donut - Pendant

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Onyx is a black and white banded Chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline Quartz. It is often thought of as an all to black stone, and much of the black Ony...

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Green Brecciated Jasper 40mm Square Donut - Pendant

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Birds Eye Rhyolite 50mm Square Donut - Pendant

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Bird’s Eye Rhyolite is named for its circular color formations of deep reds, light tans and earthtones. Rhyolite was named "streaming rock" because...

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Tiger Iron 40mm Square Donut - Pendant

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Composed mostly of tiger's eye, red jasper and black hematite, Tiger Iron has long been popular with jewelry-makers. The gold, silver, brown and re...

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Picture Jasper 40mm Square Donut - Pendant

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Picture Jasper is a form of brown Jasper characterized by its unique banding and flow patterns created by petrified or silicate mud and occasional ...

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Hubei Turquoise 7mm Square Cabochon

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Hubei Turquoise 4mm Square Cabochon

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Hubei Turquoise 6mm Square Cabochon

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Hubei Turquoise 5mm Square Cabochon

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Rose Quartz 12mm Square 8-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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Onyx 12mm Square 8-Inch

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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...

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Blue Crazy Lace Agate 12mm Square 8-Inch

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Dumortierite 12mm Square 8-Inch

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Dumortierite is an aluminum borosilicate mineral that varies in color from blue, green and brown to the more rare violet and pink. First described ...

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African Turquoise 12mm Square 8-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-gre...

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Dragon Blood Jasper 12mm Square 8-Inch

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Dragon Blood Jasper is a variety of Quartz with veins of blood red that run through the predominantly light green to dark green stone. Legend has i...

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MATTE Black Gold Amazonite 12mm Square 8-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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White Howlite 12mm Square 8-Inch

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White Howlite is named for Canadian mineralogist Henry How, who first discovered the stone in Southern California in 1868. It is typically white or...

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Sunset Eagle Eye 12mm Square Bead - 15-16 Inch

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Similar to Tiger's Eye, this gemstone in its polished state looks like what it would be like to capture smoke in a stone -- bottomless black mixed ...

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Dog Teeth Amethyst 12mm Square Bead - 15-16 Inch - DSL

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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...

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About this cut

Square bead shape diagram
Cut name
Square
Drill style
Center-drilled (corner to corner or face to face)
Typical sizes
12mm3x6mm8mm1x2mm6mm10mm3mm2mm
Stones in this cut
JasperTurquoiseLabradoriteAmazoniteAmethystAfrican TurquoiseQuartzCrystal QuartzOnyxAgatePicture JasperCrazy Lace Agate
Common uses
modern structural braceletsmen's beaded jewelryspacer accents between focal beadsstacked layered braceletsarchitectural pendant strandscolor-block strung necklaces
Related cuts
Cube, Rectangle
Design notes
Square reads as the structural counterpoint to round — flat faces and crisp edges that frame pattern and pair cleanly with metal findings. Use 6mm and 8mm for the main body of a cube strand; step up to 10mm or 12mm only when you want the geometry to be the design statement. Tiny 1x2mm and 2mm squares are spacer-scale and disappear into rhythm work between larger beads. Patterned stones (jasper, picture jasper, crazy lace) gain the most from square cut because each face shows a different slice of matrix; solid-color stones can look monolithic in larger cubes, so break them up with rondelle or disc accents.

Frequently asked questions

  • What is a square gemstone bead?
    A square bead is cut and polished into a cube or near-cube form with six flat faces and crisp edges. Most are center-drilled straight through one face to the opposite face, so the bead sits flat on the wire with a face showing front and back. Sizes are usually quoted as a single edge dimension (8mm = an 8mm cube) or as two dimensions for flatter slab squares like 3x6mm. The geometry gives a structural, architectural look very different from rounds or rondelles, and the flat faces show off pattern and matrix in stones like jasper or picture jasper.
  • What sizes does Dakota stock in square cut?
    Current square stock spans small spacer cubes up through statement sizes. The deepest size is 12mm with 14 active SKUs, followed by 3x6mm slab squares (9 SKUs) and 8mm cubes (8 SKUs). Smaller scales are well represented too: 1x2mm (8), 6mm (7), 3mm (2), and 2mm (2), plus 10mm at 3 SKUs. Tiny 1x2mm and 2mm squares work as spacer accents between larger beads; 6mm and 8mm are the workhorse sizes for cube strands; 10mm and 12mm read as statement focals. Exact strand length and bead count should appear on each listing.
  • Which stones come in square cut at Dakota?
    Square is one of the broader shape inventories. Jasper leads with 11 active SKUs, followed by turquoise (7), then amazonite, labradorite, and amethyst at 4 each. Picture jasper, quartz, crazy lace agate, onyx, and African turquoise each have 3 SKUs. Patterned stones like jasper, picture jasper, and crazy lace agate show especially well in square cut because the flat faces frame the matrix and banding. Treatment varies by stone — turquoise is commonly stabilized, and dye or heat may apply to other materials. Treatment notes should be disclosed; ask before buying if it isn't specified.
  • What jewelry designs work best with square beads?
    Square beads suit structural, modern, and men's designs where the geometry itself carries the look. Strung continuously, cubes give a chunky, architectural bracelet or necklace with a different rhythm than rounds. Smaller 2–3mm squares work as spacers between larger focal beads or between metal components. Slab squares like 3x6mm sit flat against the skin and layer well in stacked bracelets. Square reads cleaner against metal findings — bezels, tube spacers, and disc accents — than it does against rounds. Mixing one square per row with rondelles or rounds breaks up an otherwise uniform strand.
  • How is a square bead drilled and does the hole show?
    Standard squares are drilled face-to-face through the center, so the wire enters one flat face and exits the opposite face. The hole is visible on two of the six faces but hidden on the four side faces that wrap the strand. Drill diameter varies by stone and bead size — softer stones and larger beads typically take a wider hole, while smaller 2–3mm squares may have a tight bore. If you're working with thicker beading wire, leather, or knotting cord, check the listed drill size or ask before buying.