Study on the Integration of Fabric Pilling Generation and Evaluation System

An integrated pilling formation and evaluation system has been developed to evaluate the fabric pilling automatically and objectively. A pilling generation system was made using custom 3-D printed parts to generate pilling under consistent abrasion condition. A CCD camera was used to capture the images of specimen before and during the abrasion to observe the chronological changes that occur during the pilling generation process. Image analysis technique was used to measure and grade the pilling objectively.