Freeform Cabochon (Freeform Cab) - A cabochon with a free, undefined shape. The stone in the piece shown to the left is a freeform fire agate cabochon.
Freeform
A stone cut in an unusual or non-calibrated shape
Freirich
A French costume jewelry, button, and accesory company that was begun by Solomon Freirich in the 1920s after he bought Maison David, a hats, dress ornament and accesory maker.
Freeform Jewelry
A genre or design in which pieces are unique or follow no other genre. This is a growing style as more and more people are making their own jewelry.
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I cut it into freeform cabochons and then bezel set the cabs for unique pins and pendants.
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Shapes can be freeform, rice shaped, off-round or spherical and colors range from milky white, to peach, pink, and lavender.
It may be high domed or almost flat and can be cut in round, oval, square or freeform shapes. A cabochon has no facets. This is one of the oldest and simplest cuts.
In order to best reveal the colors, the overlying layers of chalcedony must be very carefully removed from the botryoidal surface creating a freeform shape with a carved upper surface.
Fire agate is cut into freeform and calibrated cabochons for use in the manufacture of silver and gold jewelry. The material is popular in the southwest and with hobbyist lapidaries throughout the United States.
Baroque: A natural freeform shape. Some cultured pearls and gold nuggets are baroque shapes.
Belcher link: Simple round link common in Georgian and Victorian chains.
Alan Bartram, arguably the world's foremost authority on South Australian Opal who said "This exquisite 'Belemnite' fossil specimen, freeform in shape, ...
Trade in turquoise crafts, such as this freeform pendant dating from 1000-1040 CE, is believed to have brought the Ancestral Puebloans of the Chaco Canyon great wealth.
BAROQUE - Irregular in shape, such as baroque pearls, tumble-polished stones, or freeform shaped gem materials.
BEAD - A spherical object, with or without facets, distinguished by a hole drilled through the stone, usually on center.
Diamonds and other gemstones which are irregular in shape or available in freeform.
Bearded girdle
Small or tiny, numerous hair like fractures / cracks around the girdle extending into the stone.
The fantasy cut is a new way of faceting stones that uses freeform angles - virtually anything goes.
FAUX
Faux means false. A faux gem is an imitation.
Off-round and baroque pearls, with their unique, freeform shapes, can be very lustrous and beautiful, yet are much less costly due to their more common occurrence. Here, value need not dictate personal preference.
Freeform gems, carvings, and new faceted designs join the popular and traditional step-cut rectangle with truncated corners and are appearing in displays more frequently.
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William Cox
Dust Devil Mining Co.
84.90 ct. freeform Oregon sunstone with copper inclusions.
Fantasy Cut: Faceting stones using freeform angles.
Fashion Jewelry: Another name for costume jewelry.
Faux: French for fake/imitation.
FANTASY CUT
The fantasy cut is a new way of faceting stones that uses freeform angles - virtually anything goes.
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These pearls are cultivated in mussels, in freshwater lakes and rivers in China, Japan and the United States. Due to their easy cultivation, freshwaters are fairly inexpensive. Shapes can be freeform, rice shaped, off-round or spherical, ...
Freshwater - Pearls cultivated in mussels, not oysters, in freshwater lakes and rivers in China, Japan and the United States. Due to their easy cultivation, freshwaters are fairly inexpensive. Shapes can be freeform, rice shaped, ...
I will custom make a setting to compliment that nice big freeform turquoise stone ... or petrified wood ... or picture jasper! Just send an email or call to discuss it with me. Visit our Contact Page for info! ...
Boulder opal is usually cut as opal with matrix to the contours of the opal vein, creating a baroque wavy surface often freeform and irregular in shape, making each boulder opal unique.
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