Quantifying the Handle and Sensibility of Woven Silk Fabrics

Abstract

This paper attempts to identify the handle and sensibility of woven silk fabrics for neckties to determine any relationships between them and purchasing preferences. Male and female students evaluate the specimens with a semantic differential scale of handle and sensibility adjectives: twenty-one hand adjectives are grouped as four—“surface sense,” “thermal sense,” “flexibility sense,” and “dryness sense”—and twenty-five sensibility adjectives are grouped as four—“modern,” “classic,” “character,” and “natural”—through factor analysis. Fabrics with a “flat” and “warm” touch result in a classic sensibility, but those that feel “flat” and “cool” represent a modern feeling. The “rough” fabrics with “warm” touch are natural, but those with a “cool” touch show character. Fabrics evaluated as high in handle and purchasing preferences for neckties show a “soft” and “flat” touch, and display modern and classic sensibilities. These relations between handle, sensibility, and fabric type are shown in image diagrams.

The development and validation of sensory and emotional scales of touch perception

“…Thus, words should be sampled from all regions of the space, i.e., along all major axes. Additionally, comparison of MDS solutions obtained from data representing perceptions of physical stimuli (in prior studies, Bergmann et al, 2006;Hollins et al, 1993Hollins et al, , 2000Na & Kim, 2001;Picard et al, 2003) versus perceptions of adjectives (in Experiment II) provides a measure of structural similarity between physically-and semantically-based touch spaces.…”

“…Following an approach originated by Yoshida (1968), multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques revealed that a primary dimension of touch perception is RoughSmoothness (Bergmann Tiest & Kappers, 2006;Hollins, Bensmaïa, Karlof, & Young, 2000;Hollins, Faldowski, Rao, & Young, 1993;Na & Kim, 2001;Picard, Dacremont, Valentin, & Giboreau, 2003). The enduring popularity of roughness as a psychophysical measure is consistent with this finding (Gescheider, Bolanowski, Greenfield, & Brunette, 2005;Klatzky & Lederman, 1999;Lederman, 1974;Lederman & Taylor, 1972;Major, 1895;Ripin & Lazarsfeld, 1937;Smith, Chapman, Deslandes, Langlais, & Thibodeau, 2002).…”

“…In this case, the words that were irrelevant to the roomtemperature textiles that formed the stimuli of Experiment III were essentially unused (e.g., hot and burning). In another example of this specificity, studies that have involved fabrics that are handled rather than just touched, report a Thin-Thick dimension (Na & Kim, 2001;Soufflet et al, 2004). That is, the emergence of Thin-Thick appears to require haptic manipulation of, rather than purely tactile interactions with, stimuli.…”

Perception of fluids with diverse rheology applied to the underarm versus forearm skin

“…The tactile characteristics of solid materials appear well described by three or four orthogonal perceptual dimensions, approximating roughness, softness, elasticity, and slipperiness (Hollins et al 1993(Hollins et al , 2000Na and Kim 2001;Picard et al 2003;Bergmann Tiest and Kappers 2006). In contrast, little is known about the perceptual structure of interactions with fluids, gels, and semisolids.…”

Textural Characteristics and Friction Properties of Facial Tissues

“…Furthermore, they noted that these results could be used for the development of better textile fabrics that would satisfy consumers more. Na et al [9] investigated the handle and sensibility of woven silk fabrics used in neckties using the SD technique; they did this in order to determine whether there was a relationship between the handle and sensibility of woven silk fabrics and consumers' purchasing preferences. They made a diagram (distribution map) of the type of silk fabric as a function of the sensibilities, and they concluded that the diagram would be useful when offering basic data for textile design or fabrication to satisfy consumer needs.…”