Project

Touché - boosting innovation through application of basic understanding on th eprocess and testing of textile touch and fabric feel

Code
179P09915
Duration
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Other mechanical and manufacturing engineering
    • Other materials engineering
Keywords
fabric feel
 
Project description

TOUCHE! is an ambitious project with technological and scientific challenges that aims to develop a set of fast, cost-effective and reliable objective test methods and improved textiles-skin models for assessment of Hand of Textiles (HoT) and Fabric Feel (FF). In addition to clothing aesthetics, these two properties are crucial elements that influence clothing purchasing as they express how consumers experience textiles by touching them with the fingers and respectively by wearing them.