What is an Aught?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009An Aught is used to determine the number of beads of a standard unit. The most popular seed bead size is 11/0(“eleven-aught”). The commonly known largest sixe is 6/0 and tiny one is 15/0.
|
Aught Size |
Bead Width (mm) |
Approx. Beads per Inch |
|
6/0 |
3.7 |
7 |
|
8/0 |
3.0 |
9 |
|
10/0 |
2.3 |
11 |
|
11/0 |
2.2 |
12 |
|
13/0 |
1.7 |
15 |
|
14/0 |
1.6 |
16 |
|
15/0 |
1.5 |
17 |