早期的捲尺以布做材料，稱為布尺。布尺使用久了會不準確，為確保市場交易產生糾紛， 因此需要檢定，以確定其合乎國家標準。「檢定用第一捲尺」是由日本時期留下來迄今，日本時期及臺灣光復早期，臺灣省度量衡檢定所用來檢定布尺精確度的檢驗器具。

Early measuring tapes were made of cloth and were known as cloth tapes. Over time, these cloth tapes could become inaccurate, necessitating verification to prevent disputes in market transactions and ensure compliance with national standards. The “standard tape measure,” left over from the Japanese period, was used in Taiwan during that time and in the early post-war years as a verification tool to check the accuracy of cloth tapes at the Provincial Weights and Measures Testing Institute.