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Shorter pieces with a date on them. Unlike the guides these are not maintained — they say what was true and what was thought when they were written, and they stay that way.
Why these are separate from the guides
A guide answers a question that has a right answer: what size Etsy wants, how to stop a ring band reading as an ellipse. Those pages are maintained, and when the underlying fact changes the page changes with it.
Some questions do not have that shape. Whether generative tooling is worth adopting, what it genuinely changes, where it does not help at all — those are judgements. Writing them as references would lend them an authority they have not earned.
So they live here, with a date, and they are left as written. If a view here turns out to be wrong, the honest response is a new note saying so, not a quiet edit to the old one.
Recent notes
The EU nickel restriction states a release rate, not a nickel content figure
In the EU, REACH Annex XVII entry 27 states its nickel numbers as release rates per square centimetre per week, not as a content figure.
The EU lead and cadmium figures are written into the parts, not into the finished piece
In the EU, REACH Annex XVII entry 63 attaches its lead figure to any individual part of a jewellery article, not to the assembled piece.
Each lead figure CPSC publishes reads a different layer of the product
CPSC publishes two distinct lead requirements for children's products, and part 1303 runs on a coating definition.
The definition names who the product is for, and the Commission decides
CPSC defines a children's product as a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger.
In these texts, relief written for older articles carries a day inside its own sentence
The EU lead and cadmium restrictions do contain reliefs shaped by age and by earlier circulation.
The Guides disclaim binding force in their own text, and set out their reach just as plainly
The FTC Jewelry Guides set out the Commission's current thinking, not binding law.
Ring size conversion charts - none of the sources read for this page defines a conversion
ISO 8653:2016 and JIS S 4700:1998 designate a ring size as millimetres of inner circumference.
Who defines necklace length names - a record of trade practice, not a piece of legislation
The book that carries the length definitions describes its own task as recording accepted trade practice.
Who is responsible for hallmarking — the United Kingdom duty attaches to placing the item on the market
United Kingdom sources name retailers, importers and craftspeople as carrying the obligation to ensure precious metal items are hallmarked.
A generated image is not a big image
Marketplace guidance asks for 2000 px and up; generative tools hand back a fixed, smaller frame and no slider changes it. What that gap actually costs — and when it costs nothing.
What AI actually changes for a small jewelry brand
Which part of the jewelry photography problem generative tools genuinely move, and which part they leave exactly where it was.