The Characterisation of the Static and Dynamic Drape of Fabrics

Evaluating drape shape in woven fabrics

“…This is the most widely used indicator even though it fails to discriminate between drape shapes in some cases ( Figure 4). Mathematically, the drape ratio is calculated as follows: d) Mean length between peaks, FaPR (Stylios & Zhu, 1997). This is the arithmetic mean of peak lengths or radii as measured from the specimen centre in mm (see Figure 2).…”

Fabric objective measurement and drape

“…Two more parameters and were proposed, these were the slopes of lines connecting overhang points on the circular disc and the free ends at maximum and minimum node length respectively. They classified the measured fabrics subjectively into 4 classes used in the clothing industry according to the feature vector results [56].…”

“…It was found that although drape coefficient is an important property for the assessment of fabric, it is not an accurate and complete measure of drape since two fabrics can have the same drape coefficient but different drape behaviour. Consequently a number of aesthetic attributes were added to the drape coefficient such as the number of folds, variation of the folds and depth of fold which represent how humans interpret drape aesthetically [56].…”

Fabric and Garment Drape Measurement - Part 1

“…S is equal to 0 when the folds are even and S is equal to 1 if the variation in the fold length is in the order of a fold length. Two more parameters α max and α min were proposed, these were the slopes of lines connecting overhang points on the circular disc and the free ends at maximum and minimum node length respectively [21].…”