What size diamonds are used in a pave setting?
September 20th, 2005
emiliomjunior asked:
I’m looking to get a chain made and wanted to know what size diamonds were used in a pave setting, since they’re tiny and usually inexpensive.
I’m looking to get a chain made and wanted to know what size diamonds were used in a pave setting, since they’re tiny and usually inexpensive.
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1. Marilyn B | September 26th, 2005 at 12:41 am
Pavé setting - A term derived from the French word for paving a street, in this case, paving a surface with tiny diamonds. Pave is technique for setting small diamonds very closely together so that they resemble a continuous surface of diamonds. Pave is often used as an accent around a larger stone or over a large surface, providing a continuously sparkling design that covers the metal below it. A pave setting is simply a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows. So the number of stones or diamonds will vary. There is also the term: Micro-Pave settings (even smaller).
2. Erez R | September 29th, 2005 at 9:25 am
The size of diamonds in a pave setting is ususally very small.
The size of each diamond is between 0.5 points to 10 points (0.005 carat to 0.10 carat) which is like 0.5mm to 3mm.
The following company offers alot of pave settings: - pave setting