In many fields, it is today important to determine in detail the surface quality of materials. Well beyond only roughness, it is necessary to characterize texture and the properties related to friction. In order to meet this need, a patented method named Modalsens is under development within the LPMT (Laboratoire de Physique et de Mécanique Textiles -UMR CNRS 7189). This method is based on the analysis of the vibratory behavior of a fine blade in dynamic contact with surface being tested. The modes of vibration of the blade provide information where roughness, texture, friction, adhesion, and compressibility are mixed. In order to characterize surface quality in detail, it is necessary to divide these various characteristics and to connect them to specificities of measured materials. This work consists of an experimental approach on the basis of varied fibrous materials (paper, non-woven materials, textiles) selected according to their surface conditions (textures) and their transverse properties (compressibility). Modalsens is then compared with reference apparatus Kawabata Evaluation System (KES) used for textiles metrology. A modeling of the dynamic contact has been developed to study the divergences between the methods of measurement to identify new parameters for a better characterization of surfaces and to identify the mechanical behaviors of fibrous asperity in shearing and transverse compression. Thus, both transverse and shearing properties, roughness, and friction will be measured and compared based on Modalsens results. with a sensor. The spectrum and fields of investigation in this area are very broad; textiles can vary greatly according to their structure, the materials which constitute them and the types of treatments (physicochemical or thermo-mechanical) that they have undergone during their manufacturing process. In practice, it is very difficult, even impossible, to know the exact conditions of each stage of manufacture of a textile. It is thus even more difficult to know the influence of these stages on the surface quality of materials. It is therefore necessary to have a global vision of the problem; here we will examine a fibrous surface as a global structure on which friction is governed by mechanical behaviors of asperities and surface pollutants. This study aims to address the following questions: How can friction on a textile on a compressible fibrous material be characterized? Which types of interactions occur during such friction? In order to place this study on a sound basis, we will review the fundamental aspects of the characterization of the coefficient of friction. We will then look at examples of studies intended to characterize friction on textiles. These two reviews will make it possible to define essential mechanical and physical parameters that have a role during friction on fibrous materials. Moreover, as the interactions of friction are often at the origin of vibratory phenomena, we will illustrate this through the description of a fundamental phenomenon: the stick-slip.Foll...