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Fifteen percent of area

Two prescribed phrases

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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The rule supplies the words. Which is rarer than it sounds.

Most disclosure rules specify a fact, not a sentence

State the net weight. State the fiber content. State a water temperature. The wording is left to the party labeling, within limits about being legible and not misleading.

Here two sentences are written out

Exclusive of decoration, and exclusive of elastic. Both appear in the rule as the text to follow the fiber content designation, not as an example of acceptable wording.

Each one is attached to a different threshold

Exclusive of decoration goes with the 15 percent surface area limit on decorative trim and patterns. Exclusive of elastic goes with the 20 percent surface area allowance for elastic material in the basic fabric.

And each one is a negative statement about scope

Neither tells a reader what the excluded part is made of. Both tell a reader that something has been left out of the figures above, which is a different kind of disclosure from a content statement.

The condition on the first phrase is worth reading twice

It applies if no representation is made as to the fiber content of the decoration and the fiber content of the decoration differs from that of the basic fabric. Both limbs have to hold.

So a matching decoration needs no phrase

If the embroidery is the same fiber as the fabric, the content statement is already accurate about the whole article and there is nothing to exclude.

And a decoration whose content is disclosed needs no phrase either

The phrase exists to mark an unmeasured part. Disclose the part and the mark is unnecessary. Which means the phrase is a signal about what was done, not a warning about the product.

Elsewhere the part bans a hang tag from being silently partial

Where a hang tag states only a fiber generic name or trademark and the product contains any other fiber, the tag must disclose clearly and conspicuously that it does not provide the full fiber content, for example that the tag does not disclose the full fiber content, or to see the label for it.

Which is the same device in a different place

A sentence whose only job is to mark the edge of what has been stated. Three of them appear in this part and all three protect a reader from treating a partial figure as a total.

References

16 CFR 303.12(a), which exempts trimmings incorporated in wearing apparel and household textile articles "except for decorative trim, decorative patterns and designs, and elastic materials in findings exceeding the surface area thresholds", lists at (a)(2) "Decorative trim, whether applied by embroidery, overlay, applique, or attachment", and provides that such trim or design "does not exceed 15 percent of the surface area of the household textile article". Where no representation is made and the content differs, "the fiber content designation of the basic fabric shall be followed by the statement “exclusive of decoration.”" Paragraph (b) allows elastic material up to "20 percent of the surface area", followed by "exclusive of elastic." law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 303.16(a)(1), which requires "The generic names and percentages by weight of the constituent fibers present in the textile fiber product, excluding permissive ornamentation, in amounts of 5 percent or more and any fibers disclosed in accordance with 303.3(a) shall appear in order of predominance by weight with any percentage of fiber or fibers required to be designated as “other fiber” or “other fibers” appearing last." Paragraph (b) adds that all parts of the fiber content information "shall appear in type or lettering of equal size and conspicuousness". law.cornell.edu
Written from 16 CFR part 303 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 303 implements the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and governs fiber content labeling on finished textile products; it does not govern floss, needles, beads or hoop hardware, and nothing here says it does. Heights and diameters in the catalog are outside dimensions, so no interior measurement is stated on these pages. This shelf is shared identically by nine groups and the sewing notions property enumerates the inventory.