Measurement of Fabric Hand by Sensory Method and Inspection on its Effectiveness for Worsted Woven Fabrics

Abstract

Systems of instrumental method for measuring fabric hand have been successfully developed like KES and its basic way has been well established. On the contrary, systems of sensory method have been remained to be at a controversial state.In this paper, a practical sensory method is proposed on the basis of analogy to sensory colorimetry. Measuraneaa of two kinds of worsted fabrics was conducted by making use of this sensory method. The effective range and the accuracy of this method are discussed based on the data of the above measurement.As a result, it is shown that if a suitable control (temporary standard) sample is chosen, the instrumental values of bending rigidity, thickness and compressibility of worsted fabrics can be estimated by this sensory method with the error of around 20%.