Terms to Know

Today's designers offer various shapes and settings:

• Baguette - This refers to a rectangular-shaped small diamond that is often used to enhance the setting of a larger stone.

• Bezel setting - A diamond is completely surrounded by a precious metal border in this setting technique that resembles a picture frame.

• Channel setting - Popular for mounting rows of small, uniformly sized stones, this setting technique uses two strips of metal to hold the stones at the sides. Used for round, baguette and square-cut stones, the channel setting resembles a railroad track with the diamonds in the center.

• Fancy Cut - A diamond in any shape other than round. Fancy cuts include such shapes as baguette, emerald, triangle, pear, princess, oval and marquis.

• Pavé setting - 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.

• Solitaire - The mounting of a single gemstone.

• Tiffany setting - A four or six-prong setting using long, slender prongs to hold the stone.

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