A guide line for manufacturing “ideal fabrics”

This paper reports the recent progress in the ideal fabrics project that started in 1996. The aim of this project is to initiate the engineered manufacturing of “ideal fabric”. Ideal fabric is the fabric which satisfies the three conditions, good hand, good appearance of suit, and mechanical comfort for wear. The objective evaluation method of these three properties has been developed, and these objective method and fabric mechanics theories are fully applied to this project. Some ideal fabrics have been manufactured as the guideline for manufacturing ideal fabrics in the future. These trial fabrics are now being commercialized to assess the response of consumers.