Abstract:

To investigate a measurement that can test fabric bending and draping performance simultaneously, 20 common fabrics were chosen and tested with the method of bevel and circular table to obtain the bending length and draping factor. Then the self-designed crossing method was used, as a result, horizontal hanging distance, vertical hanging distance, the bending & draping coefficient were extracted. After research, the following conclusion was drawn: The crossing method can be used to test both fabric bending performance and fabric draping performance. The three parameters all have good correlation coefficients with bending length of bevel method, the coefficients from large to small are bending & draping coefficient, horizontal hanging distance, vertical hanging distance. Furthermore, there is good correlation between bending & draping coefficient with draping factor of the circular table method. The crossing method combines the measurement of fabric bending and fabric draping performance into one test, which can simplify the operations and save time.

Key words: fabric, bending behavior, drape property, bending &, draping coefficient, bending length