AATCC Evaluation Procedure 5-2011

Fabric Hand:  Guidelines for the Subjective Evaluation of

Developed in 1990 by AATCC Committee RA89

1.  Purpose and Scope

1.1  This procedure describes guidelines for the presentation of fabrics for the evaluation of hand.  Its purpose is to standardize the conditions under which a fabric is evaluated for one or more of the constituent elements of hand.
1.2  These guidelines may be used in the following circumstances:
1.2.1  When different people at different times wish to follow the same protocol for examining fabrics.
1.2.2  In training evaluators to detect and distinguish among different constituent elements or components of hand.
1.2.3  When an individual wishes to duplicate the conditions under which a fabric has been previously evaluated.
1.2.4  With a panel of individuals evaluating the same fabric(s).

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