بيضة
A tapered ovoid, wider at one end. The asymmetry gives a strand subtle rhythm as the beads pass through the fingers.
- Standard sizes
- 8×11 · 10×13 mm
- Aspect ratio
- 1.38 : 1
- Production note
- Orientation is matched bead to bead by hand.
- Available in
- All nine amber varieties
- Minimum order
- 100 pieces per specification
Custom dimensions are routine. If the profile you need is not in the library we tool for it, proof it against a physical prototype, and archive it under your account so it is never produced for anyone else.
Amber weight, by diameter
Integrated from this profile’s own geometry at 1.08 g/cm³, beads only. Amber is traded by weight, so this is the figure that turns a specification into a price.
- 13G
- 8 mm · 33 beads
- 39G
- 8 mm · 99 beads
- 25G
- 10 mm · 33 beads
- 75G
- 10 mm · 99 beads
- 43G
- 12 mm · 33 beads
- 130G
- 12 mm · 99 beads
Deliberate asymmetry
The egg is a tapered profile with a slight lean built into it, so one end is fuller than the other. That asymmetry is the point — it gives the bead a direction and makes a strand read as intentional rather than mechanical — but it also makes the profile the most demanding one here to assemble.
Every bead has to face the same way. A single reversed egg on a strand of ninety-nine is visible from across a room, and there is no way to correct it afterwards without restringing. That is why egg strands are assembled by a single craftsman start to finish rather than passed along a line.
The yield cost of a taper
A tapered profile removes material at both ends, and the egg carries roughly thirty per cent less amber than a barrel of the same nominal diameter. Since amber is priced by weight, that cuts both ways: the bead costs less in material and it also feels lighter in the hand than its size suggests, which some buyers read as value and others as insubstantial.
We would rather raise that at specification stage than have it discovered on arrival. If the brief is presence in the hand, the egg is not the profile to reach for.
Where it works
It suits collector and design-led pieces more than volume retail, and it photographs unusually well because the taper gives a photograph the depth cue that a symmetrical bead lacks. For a range that needs one distinctive silhouette alongside conventional profiles, this is frequently the one to choose.
Specifying it so it arrives right
Three things need stating and are routinely left out. Which end leads — full end towards the imam or away from it — because both are defensible and only one is what you meant. Whether the separators follow the same orientation logic. And whether the imam itself is cut to match the taper or contrasts with it.
We ask all three at specification stage and record the answers in the production file, because a reorder that reverses any of them produces a strand that is technically correct and visibly different. On an asymmetric profile the production file is doing more work than on any other shape here, which is precisely why it exists.
Questions about this profile
Both are defensible and only one is what you meant, so we ask at specification stage and record it. Full end towards the imam is the more common choice, but we will not assume it.
It can either match or deliberately contrast, and both work. It is the third question we ask on this profile and the one most often left out of a brief.
It is asymmetric, so every bead must face the same way. One reversed bead in ninety-nine is visible across a room and cannot be fixed without restringing.
Roughly thirty per cent less amber at the same nominal diameter, because the taper removes material at both ends.
Less so. The assembly discipline it needs suits collector and design-led work better than high-volume retail.
Quote a egg programme.
Send a diameter, a bead count and a quantity. We reply within one business day with a specification and an indicative price.