If you have ever wandered down our ribbon aisles, you will notice that some of the ribbon does not have an inch description for its width. Instead it has numbers like #3, #5, #9, or #40. This is a carryover from the days that satin acetate was the dominant ribbon on the market. With the advent of all the new novelty ribbons in the last 20 years, the width numbering system is used sporadically and can be confusing. Here is a table that transaltes what those numbers correspond to in inches.

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