THE STIFFNESS OF KNITTED FABRICS:

Gives a review of the various methods which have been developed to measure the stiffness of fabric and describes a new method. This new approach enables the testing of knitted fabrics which are difficult to test using the cantilever system. The inter-operative reproducibility of the new instrument is compared with that of the cantilever method and the drape meter. Also reports inter-laboratory comparisons on woven fabric and on knitted fabric, the latter having been measured on a KES-F system.