A Contribution to the Identification of Materials in Textile Fabrics (2)

Abstract

Fifteen kinds of fabrics were tactually and visually investigated by 388 subjects to identify constituent fibers of fabrics. A principal component analysis was made by using eight kinds of adjectives; cotton -, linnen -, silk -, wool -, metal -, glass -, china - and waxlike.The analysis has shown that four kinds of adjectives, i.e., cotton -, silk -, wool - like and non - fibrous material are enough to express the fabric character.Then, the image patterns of 15 kinds of fabrics were illustrated by using the above four adjectives. The fabrics were significantly characterized by the image patterns.