Amethyst Teardrop Briolette

This vertically half-drilled teardrop-shaped amethyst briolette bead is fully rounded and faceted around its entire surface, giving it an attractive light-catching quality. Its faceting makes this bead an ideal choice for pendant and earring designs, either used individually or combined with an assortment of other colors of gemstone beads and pearls; it looks especially good with silver findings. Use jeweler’s epoxy to secure the bead on a peg. Amethyst is the best known and most valuable form of quartz. The light-to-dark purple color of natural amethyst is caused by iron or manganese compound impurities in the mineral and can range from a watercolor pale pink to a dark, almost opaque, purple.