What are French Lignes?
The Ligne, or French Ligne, is a unit of measurement you’ll sometimes overhear in the hat business when referring to hat bands. Since hat band widths is the only place I’ve ever heard it used, and I was surprised to find so little online about it, I made a small chart for converting between lignes and inches.
Next time you’re browsing through a hat catalog and see a 12 ligne hat band, you can use the converter to figure out that's about a 1" wide hat ribbon.
Here is the chart:
|
4 lignes |
3/8 in. |
| 6 lignes | 1/2 in. |
| 8 lignes | 5/8 in. |
| 9 lignes | 3/4 in. |
| 12 lignes |
1 in. |
| 16 lignes | 1 1/2 in. |
| 19 lignes | 1 3/4 in. |
| 22 lignes | 2 in. |
| 25 lignes | 2 1/4 in. |
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