Tourmaline square Afghanistan No. 14
Tourmaline is a stone with amazing properties. This jewelry stone surpasses any other gem in its variety of colors.
“Square” is a type of step (wedge) cut, characterized by equal length and width. The cut has 57 facets as a standard; they are applied in stages and strictly parallel to the edges, forming something like an inverted pyramid with a truncated top. The main motive for such processing is maximum preservation of the weight of the feedstock.
Tourmaline trilliantite
Tourmaline is a stone with amazing properties. This jewelry stone surpasses any other gem in the variety of its coloring.
The Russian standardized shape “Trilliant fifty-two faceted (T-52)” has 25 facets of the crown (1 facet of the platform, 6 facets of the upper triangular wedges of the crown, 6 main facets of the crown in the shape of a rhombus and deltoid, 12 facets of the lower paired triangle-shaped wedges) and 15 pavilion facets (3 main deltoid-shaped pavilion facets and 12 triangle-shaped pavilion wedges), the remaining 12 facets of the faceting are on the girdle surface.
Trilliant tourmaline Afghanistan No. 50
Tourmaline is a stone with amazing properties. This jewelry stone surpasses any other gem in its variety of colors.
The form “Fifty-two-sided Trilliant (T-52)”, standardized in Russia, has 25 crown faces (1 platform face, 6 faces of the upper triangular wedges of the crown, 6 main faces of the crown in the shape of a rhombus and deltoid, 12 faces of the lower paired wedges in the shape of a triangle) and 15 pavilion faces (3 main pavilion faces in the shape of a deltoid and 12 wedges of the pavilion in the shape of a triangle), the remaining 12 facets of the cut fall on the surface of the girdle.