The hand is one of the important qualities of bath towels. It is interesting to study what physical properties of bath towels correlate to their hand. In this paper, the relationship between the sensory values for the good feel and physical properties of twelve bath towels was studied by means of the principle regression analysis and the correlation analysis. The results are as follows.
(1) As a result of principal component analysis, it was found that two principal component “good in touch” and “sturdy and drying property” were chosen to represent the hand of bath towel.
(2) The compression feeling was affected by compression properties((To-TM), compression ratio, compression energy, and recovery energy). And the softness feeling was affected by the friction property(MMD), and the warmth by the thermal property(q-max).
