Abstract
The hand of fabrics is ordinarily characterized by descriptive words such as “body”. “compliant.” This paper discusses an improved method for describing the hand of fabrics.
1. “The basic terms of hand” recommended by the authors as the improved descriptive words of hand are defined on the basis of the mechanical properties. They are instituted as shown in Table 1.
2. The expressions with ordinary descriptive words should be translated into those by the basic terms of hand. A dictionary for this purpose is presented as shown in Table 2.
3. The translations of 352 expressions by ordinary descriptive words have been tried. For the purpose of the comparisons between the results of these translations and those obtained from the measurements of the basic mechanical properties.
4. It is confirmed that all the translations are possible and that the possibility of errors, that is, the contradictions in both results, is within about 15%.
