For fabric strips I use comic book boards. Can get two to six strips on a board, then shelve them like books - roughly by color. Easy to see what I have. For smaller things, cords, ribbons, elastic etc. I use small boards (cut cardboard, cut comic strip boards, cardboard etc.) that will fit in a clear plastic "shoe box". (That is the size of the board is slightly smaller than the end of the box, so I can slip a lot of these in the box parallel to the ends). I have a fair amount of this stuff, so one box for cording, one for elastics and ribbons etc. Labeled on the end and put on shelves. For zippers etc., just kind of dumped into a labeled plastic shoe box.