Toyonori Nishimatsu

Applying Factor Analysis to the Hand of Terry Fabrics

When the hand of terry fabrics is designed, it is important that interrelations between the sensory value of the hand and various objective tests on terry fabrics, whose pile design factors are changed diversely, are investigated. When two factors of the pile design (a pile ratio and an effective fiber length of a pile warp yarn) are changed, the sense of touch becomes better as energy loss ratio increases and gets worse as compressive resilience, modulus, and recovery ratio increase. When changing two factors of the pile design (a twist number of a pile warp yam and a yarn count of pile warp), the sense of touch becomes better as compressive energy, frictional coefficient, and thickness increase, and gets worse as compressive resilience increases.