[Jewelry making - Article 00566] - Re: [Orchid] Metric system

[Linda Augsburg]

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    I admit it, I've been lurking for months now, learning ever-so-much
    from everyone. But I've come out of the shadows because of the metric
    system discussion. I work for Kalmbach Publishing Co. (Bead&Button,
    BeadStyle, and the special issue, Art Jewelry). Our policy is to list
    the imperial measurement and then list the metric parenthetically---2
    in. (5cm). Some friends from other countries (who were not beaders or
    jewelers) mentioned that in countries other than the US, measurements
    were listed in either mm or m, and that cm were not commonly used:
    examples, 16 in. = .41m, not 16 in. = 41cm or 5 in. = 127mm, not
    1.27cm. However, foreign how-to books and magazines for
    needlecrafting (as similar as I could find) seem to use mm, cm
    (sometimes), and m (never dm). Help! For the non-imperial-system
    readers out theRe: what makes sense to you when making jewelry items
    (the context seems important, jewelry as opposed to roadway markers
    and house plans)? Is there a rule about at what point you change from
    one to the other (use cm up to 50, then use .51m or something?) or
    what does it depend on? I've read the "metric rules" but am actually
    hoping to get "real life" feedback. Thanks! 

Linda Augsburg
www.BeadStyleMag.com 


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