Cabochon – a popular jewelry accessory in 2012

Cabochon, is a gemstone which has been shaped and polished as opposed to faceted. In the early stage, Cabochon mainly made of gemstone, with cabochon jewelry getting popular day by day, many material of cabochons designed out. Below are the mainly used cabochons nowadays:

1.       Gemstone Cabochon – there are also many different kinds of gemstones cabochons, such as cats eye gemstone cabochons, tiger’s eye stone cabochon, rose cabochons, malachite stone cabochons… Because gemstones material is natural, so price of gemstone cabochons usually higher than other material cabochons.

2.       Glass cabochons – according to different techniques, we can found Chinese crystal glass cabochons, millefiori glass cabochons, lampwork glass cabochons, crackle glass cabochons among glass cabochons.

3.       Pearl Cabochons – now plastic pearl cabochons are the manly cabochons people used for pearl cabochons.

4.       Metal Cabochons – usually, metal cabochons will be match with some crystal stone or acrylic stones, resin stones to make more fashion.

5.       Rhinestone Cabochons – this is the most popular cabochons now days. Also, there are different rhinestone cabochons, including metal rhinestone cabochons, acrylic rhinestone cabochons, resin rhinestone cabochons, crystal rhinestone cabochons…

Most of cabochons will come in round, oval, drop, heart, square. Some special shapes also custom in Cabochons jewelries factory. Regarding the shape, there are many different shapes among metal rhinestone cabochons because we can make new metal moulds and glue different stones to make it.

After we know what a cabochon is, how can we use the cabochon?

In the past, cabochons usually used to makerings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants.