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Quiz

Cloth, then stitch

Five questions from the FTC fiber label, the care tag, and thread weight. Cloth first. A machine is a later comparison.

Folded bolts of cloth

Fiber ID at the table starts with which step?

The care tag names how to wash and dry. It names the fiber. True or false?

When the paperwork is missing, a burn belongs where?

YLI treats 50 wt as which quilting job?

Fiber ID sorts plant, protein, and synthetic. True or false?

The FTC requires generic fiber names on most textile products. Manufactured fibers must use those names, not a trademark standing alone. Fibers at 5 percent or more by weight are named in order of predominance. The care tag is a different label. Use both when they exist.

All-purpose polyester holds a garment seam. Quilting thread has two jobs of its own: piecing, and quilting that is meant to show. Weight and fiber decide whether the seam disappears. Computerized versus mechanical machines is a third comparison, not the first door.

Longer lectures: fiber ID, all-purpose vs quilting thread, all three comparisons.

Sources

Factual claims on this page follow these public guides. Open the live page, not a paraphrase.

  1. Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts · U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  2. Clothes Captioning: Complying with the Care Labeling Rule · U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  3. Identifying Fibers and Fabrics (Guideline 4.107) · Sewing.org
  4. Thread Weight for Quilting · YLI Threads