About this block

Fabric Shelf lays out every cloth the workshop has ever cut as a grid of six swatch cards, each pairing a Placeholder swatch with a Still cut or Retired badge. The mill spec sits in mono beneath the name, then an honest note and the years on the shelf: the 18 oz cotton duck that cut bag 1 of 8 and still runs, the 8 oz canvas that “aged badly” and retired to the museum shoebox, the ripstop liner that “crinkled loudly in quiet rooms” until it left the line.

The fabrics are one array, and the Badge variant switches on status so retired cloth reads muted against the cut stock. A closing line offers offcut swatches with any order and a Friday handling of the two retired bolts.

When to use

Reach for this block on an archive or materials page, wherever the story of what a product is made from earns as much trust as the product itself. The mill names and fabric weights must stay accurate, they are the whole point of the shelf.

A natural flow around it on an Ecommerce Pro page:

Before

• First bag story

After

• Product care sections
• Spec sections

What you can display

One strong use is the eleven year cloth shelf. Other material archives:

• Timber rack. A furniture studio showing every wood it has milled, the species and the year it came in.
• Yarn library. A knitwear label with each fiber it has spun, retired blends kept beside the current ones.
• Glaze shelf. A ceramicist listing every glaze mixed, the recipe and the kiln run that proved or killed it.

Tip: keeping the retired cloth on the shelf beside the live stock turns a discontinued material into proof that you choose fabric on merit, not habit.