Pavé setting

Pavé Setting
Pavé setting (PAH-VEY) is an enchanting choice for engagement and wedding rings. For a distinct and glamorous look, a large center stone is usually complimented with smaller diamonds.

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A setting technique for small diamonds in which the stones are set so closely together that no metal shows. A pavé surface appears to be paved with diamonds.
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Pavé Setting: From the French word for pavement, these stones are set low and very close, so that the surface appears to be paved with gemstones. Pavé settings most commonly feature diamonds, but any gemstone may be used.

Pavé setting
Pronounced pa-vay, pavé setting is a prong-like setting where the prongs are so small they are barely visible.

Pavé Setting
When the surface of a ring appears to be covered with tiny diamonds, the technique is called Pavé which means paved. It's an apt name because the surface looks a bit like a very pretty street paved with cobblestones.

Pavé Setting
A stone setting technique whereby the entire surface of a jewel is covered or paved with closely set stones
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Pavé Setting: A stone setting where the entire surface of a gem is covered or “paved' with tightly set stones. Commonly seen with diamonds, but may be used with any gem stone.
Pavilion: The part of a cut gemstone below the girdle.

A pavé setting is the essential covering of the entire surface of the ring by tiny diamonds. It looks almost like paved gravel, hence the name pavé. The pave setting takes a lot of effort; as the ring slims at the sides, the diamonds should also slim.

A Pavé setting is a tight grouping of identically sized stones laid across a flat, or convex surface, from the French word for "paved." The stones are held in place using three to six raised beads per stone.

Pavé Setting
Multiple small stones set in a curved or flat surface and held in place by prongs. The prongs are created by hand from the surrounding metal with the use of a fine sharp gravers tool.

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Pavé settings are stones set very close together. The stones hide the underlying surface. In better pieces, claw settings are used; in less expensive pieces, the stones are simple glued in.

Discoloration that forms on metals such as silver and bronze but often planned for in the artist's design, can also be introduced artificially by use of chemicals

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Pavé Setting Involves placing stones known as melee up against one another like paving stones, held in place by "beads" of metal. Mille Grain Using a chisel to produce continuous fine granular relief patterns on the edge of the base metal.

In smaller sizes, they make good stones for eternity rings, and in other channel or pavé settings, where they can be set without leaving as much gap between stones as round ones would leave.

This method is highly labor intensive, since it involves the setting of a large number of very small stones. Pavé settings can be rough to the touch if they are not finished properly, ...

Frederic Strass who invented this method in the 18th Century Patina Discoloration that forms on metals such as silver and bronze but often planned for in the artist's design, can also be introduced artificially by use of chemicals Pavé ...

See also: Diamond, Gemstone, Jewel, Pave, Stone