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Getting started

Where the rule names embroidery

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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Applied by embroidery, overlay, applique, or attachment. Four methods, one category.

Most spines in this library do not name the craft

They name a substance, a hazard, a volume or a product class, and the craft has to be read into them. Part 303 names embroidery outright.

It appears in the trimmings section

Trimmings incorporated in articles of wearing apparel and other household textile articles are exempt from the Act and regulations, with exceptions, and the list of what counts as trim includes decorative trim whether applied by embroidery, overlay, applique, or attachment.

Four application methods treated as one thing

Embroidery is stitched through, overlay sits on top, applique is a shaped piece attached at its edges and attachment covers the rest. The rule does not care which, because what it is measuring is the decoration, not the technique.

And the general position is an exemption

Trimmings are exempt. The list of what may count as trim is long: rickrack, tape, belting, binding, braid, labels, collars, cuffs, wrist bands, leg bands, waist bands, gussets, gores, welts, and findings.

Including threads added in minor proportion for structure

Elastic materials and threads inserted in or added to the basic product or garment in minor proportion for holding, reinforcing or similar structural purposes. So a seam thread is trim, and exempt.

But decorative trim has a condition attached

The exemption holds for decorative trim only while it does not exceed 15 percent of the surface area of the article. Above that the exemption stops applying to it.

Which is a different quantity from the five percent rule

Weight in one place, surface area in the other, in the same part of the same title. The two thresholds are not comparable and are not meant to be.

And a decorative pattern woven in is treated the same way

Decorative patterns or designs which are an integral part of the fabric out of which the article is made fall under the same 15 percent limit, so a jacquard and an applied applique are measured alike.

None of which reaches a spool of floss on a shelf

Part 303 governs the fiber content statement on a finished textile fiber product. Floss, needles, beads and hoop hardware are not that, and nothing on these pages says they are.

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
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.