Assessment of the Tactile Properties of Woven Fabrics Made from Various Types of Staple-fibre Yarn

An investigation is described in which ring-spun, rotor-spun, and friction-spun yarns were used as weft in a series of woven fabrics and measurements were made of the tactile properties of the fabrics by manual and instrumental assessment in an attempt to establish a correlation between measured parameters and perceived properties. Reasonable correlation was found between human evaluation and surface-roughness properties over a wide range of thread-spacings. Correlations were also observed between surface roughness and many of the perceptions of the panel of assessors. It seemed likely that there were interactions and many of the perceptions were based on several attributes of the fabrics rather than single ones.