Abstract: Martindale was used to test the pilling property of 29 kinds of knitted fabric.The test results were assessed by the traditional subjective evaluation by experts and other methods such as the total weight of the pills per unit area,the pills per unit area,and the average weight of pills,and a comparative analysis was conducted.It was found that the method of cutting and weighing pills of unit area has the greatest correlation with the traditional subjective evaluation method and the advantages of being objective,exact,and convenient.Therefore,it can be used as an objective method for evaluating the pilling property of knitted fabrics,whereas the methods of measuring pills number per unit area and average weight of pills are not suitable to evaluate the knitted fabric pilling property.