Three rows this shelf does not share
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Nine groups in this catalog share one shelf exactly
251 containers and 288 closures, identical row for row. Trains and dioramas, embroidery, sewing notions, fishing, electrical, fasteners, furniture and cabinet, keys and security, and plumbing.
Four more groups carry that shelf plus three rows
Small parts storage, findings and components, knit and crochet, and reloading and shooting. Each of those four sees 253 containers and 289 closures.
The three rows are a container in two colors and the lid that fits it
Two 1 oz PET slim cylinder rounds at 29.573 mL, in a case of 920, blue at 47 cents and clear at 48. Plus the 20-410 white polypropylene continuous thread lid.
And the dimension is the point
3.55 inches tall by 0.967 of an inch across. An aspect ratio of 3.67, which is narrower in proportion than any usable jar on the shared shelf.
Which is exactly what a cable needle or a tapestry needle wants
Height to stand in and a diameter small enough that a handful of needles stays upright rather than falling across each other.
One of the two is marked available and one is not
The blue was marked available when this was measured and the clear was not. Which is a snapshot of one day and the page says which day on purpose.
A clear tube would be the better of the two for this job
Because a bundle of needles in an opaque tube has to be tipped out to be counted. So the row that suits the group best is the one that was not available.
The family it belongs to has six colors and only two are here
Amber, dark amber, green and white exist in the same slim cylinder round at the same size and are not on this shelf. Which is a routing outcome and not a statement that they cannot be had.
That distinction matters and this library keeps returning to it
A curated shelf cannot show what it excluded. An absence on a shelf is evidence about the shelf, not about the catalog behind it, and the honest move is to say which of the two is being described.
Here it is the shelf, and the shelf is three rows wider than most
Which is worth knowing before concluding that nothing on this shelf stands a five inch needle upright.