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What goes wrong

What goes wrong

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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Most of them are shape mistakes. Read as capacity mistakes.

Choosing by capacity and getting the wrong shape

Two containers at the same volume can be 1.5 by 4.5 inches and roughly 4 by 2.75. A capacity figure cannot distinguish them, and for a needle or a skein of floss the difference decides the outcome.

Treating an outside height as interior depth

The catalog records the container’s own dimension. A 2.5 inch needle does not fit a container of 2.5 inches outside height, and nothing on these pages converts one figure into the other.

Expecting a hoop to fit

No container on this shelf has a diameter of five inches and only seven reach four. The widest is 4.625. Hoop hardware fits; a hoop does not.

Specifying glass for a flat parts job

38 of the 44 glass containers that record both dimensions are taller than wide. Specifying glass narrows a flat shape search to about six rows, which is usually not what the buyer intended.

Putting loose floss in the tall end of the shelf

The two tallest shapes measure 6.745 by 1.95 and 6.664 by 2.39 inches. Skeins interlock and have to be lifted individually, which a hand cannot do at the bottom of a narrow column.

Putting seed beads in the flat end

A tub at 1.5 by 4.5 inches gives beads a wide floor and a low wall. Beads do better in something they fill, with a closure that seats rather than one that presses on.

Screening on a dimension that is not recorded

Fourteen containers record no height and 31 record no diameter. Those rows return nothing to a dimensional filter, which makes a shelf look narrower than it is rather than wider.

Reading the three percentages in the rule as one scale

Five percent by weight, fifteen percent of surface area and twenty percent of surface area do three different jobs. The first changes a name, the second removes an exemption, the third permits a reclassification.

And assuming part 303 reaches anything in this group

It does not. It governs the fiber content statement on a finished textile fiber product, not a needle, a bead, a skein of floss or a hoop screw. It is the spine of this property because it names embroidery by name and because of what it does with a fiber under five percent.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 219 of the 251 containers on this shelf record both a height and a diameter. Height divided by diameter runs from 0.33 to 3.85 with a median of 0.896, so the median container is wider than it is tall: 128 are wider than tall, 90 are taller than wide and one is square. 33 reach a ratio of 1.5, 18 reach 2 and only 3 reach 3. Ten are at 0.5 or below. Glass reverses the pattern: 38 of the 44 glass containers that record both dimensions are taller than wide, against 34 of 100 PET and 18 of 74 polypropylene. All 128 wider-than-tall rows are jars or tubs; all 19 bottles and both tubes are taller than wide. These are outside dimensions.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. Of the 220 containers that record a diameter, 189 reach two inches, 74 reach three, 54 reach 3.5, 7 reach four and 5 reach 4.5. None reaches five inches. The widest on the shelf measures 4.625 inches. The flattest rows are polypropylene round tubs at 1.5 by 4.5 inches, a ratio of 0.33, and a 7.4 mL polypropylene hinged container at 0.5 by 1.5 inches. These are outside dimensions, so the opening is narrower than the figure given.
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.