Abstract:

The available fabric wrinkling measurements could not be used to characterize the wrinkling behavior during actual wearing. Aiming at this, a simple method for fabric wrinkling measurement that can simulate actual wear was put forward. A simulating device was set up and image processing technology was used to extract wrinkle density. Experiment was conducted with 20 fabrics. The following conclusions can be drawn. Wrinkles produced by the simulating method are very similar with those in actual wear, which proves the feasible of the method. Besides, its measuring stability is better than that of wrinkle recovery angle method. Wrinkle recovery angle in 0°has the highest correlation with wrinkle dinsity, after which is 45°. It is advisable that Wrinkle recovery angle in 45° should be considered to improve the agreement of the testing results and the actual wrinkling ability capability during wear. Models between wrinkle disity and wrinkle recovery angle established by multiple linear regression can be used to predict fabric wrinkling during actual wear, without need of the tedious clothes making and trial work.

Key words: fabric wrinkling, simulating device, actual wear, wrinkle recovery angle, image processing