A Contribution to the Identification of Materials in Textile Fabrics (1)

Abstract

Fifteen kinds of fabrics were investigated by a series of tactile, visual and burning tests to identify their constituent fibers. The present investigation aims to make differences clear of identifying ability of three groups of subjects, i.e., college students, homemakers and women clericals. A hierarchical cluster analysis and a nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling analysis were applied to illustrate three kinds of confusion matrices, and to compare subject groups each other.
Main results are (1) Identifying ability of students in the school of textile and clothing are higher than those of homemakers and women clericals, and (2) Identification of synthetic fibers are more difficult than that of natural fibers.