Name: Laveeza

Id: f2022089004
Course: Fiber and Yarn

HOW THE STATIC AND DYNAMIC DRAPES OF A FABRIC? DETERMINED

QUANTITATIVE METHOD OF IT?
Fabric's drape is a very important property because it makes the fabric look good, especially
when it's used as a skirt, tablecloth, curtain, or other item. It has a direct connection to
textile aesthetics, which is crucial for the design of dresses and skirts as well as the
development and selection of textile materials in the apparel industry. Textile drapeability is
subjective and influenced by skill and experience, making comparisons of drapes
challenging, particularly when viewed from different perspectives.
The following is a discussion of the static and dynamic drape of fabrics, which is established
as an aesthetic quality. A new algorithm is used to provide a more precise definition of the
drapability of a particular fabric. Utilizing a feature vector to characterize the various types
of fabric-drape performance is found to be more accurate and to be in excellent agreement
with subjective evaluation, according to experimental findings. The computer-based vision
system known as the Static- and Dynamic-drape-measurement System (M3) was developed
to make it possible to apply the novel method to the measurement of actual fabric. The
results show that subjective evaluation and aesthetic judgment agree, which led to the
standardization of fabric drapes into four levels, from high to low. When a property
adjustment is required to achieve the desired drape performance, the M3 may simulate
intelligence or expert knowledge by connecting fabric drape with mechanical characteristics.

STATIC:
The mono planar drape meter proved ineffective for measuring fabric drapes. Consequently,
a three-dimensional distortion instrument was unveiled by Massachusetts' Fabric Research
Laboratories. The significance of the drape's anisotropic properties was demonstrated by
this tester's quantitative analysis.
The sample being examined in this optical apparatus was sandwiched between two circular
plates that were fixed to a pedestal that could be moved up and down. This meant that the
sample could not touch the base of the apparatus. The optical system of this apparatus was
utilized to cast the sample's image, which was then traced through the operator, with the
sample draped on a ground glass surface above circular plate.
Drape Measurement:
The most widely accepted method of drape test is IS 8357:1977. In this test, a circular fabric
sample whose diameter is 25.0 cm is placed on a circular disk of 12.5 cm. The cloth drapes
and compresses internally owing to gravity, finally resulting in a flared shape. Then the
drape coefficient is described as the ratio of vertical projection area to the entire sample
area.

The drape coefficient alone does not give a complete description of drape behaviour. There are
many other aspects of the detailed form of draping. One other parameter which can easily be
measured is the number of nodes formed as the fabric drapes.

DYNAMIC DRAPE:
The goal of drape researchers was to find drape values that were correlated with the actual
drape and movement of the fabric. The dynamic drape behavior of various fabrics would be
distinct from that of the static drape behavior. The dynamic drape showed the real
performance of the fabric and would help workers in the textile, clothing, and design
industries quantify the real drape behavior of fabrics. Ranganathan et al. measured fabric
drape with a dynamic apparatus. The sample's shape and dimensions were derived from the
bending behavior and shape of actual fabric drape folds for the test procedure. A needle
and an arm were used to clamp the sample in the apparatus and rotate it. Using a
protractor, both the arm's movement and the sample needle's response were recorded to
create a hysteresis diagram. The drape behavior parameters were the maximum value at
45° rotation and the area of the hysteresis loop.
Later, a system that included an image processing device and a drape meter with a circular
rotatable supporting disc was used to investigate dynamic drape behavior. For the tested
sample, the camera should be able to take pictures at very short intervals—maybe every
tenth of a second. The investigation reveals that the range of the revolution speed shifts.
Stylios and Zhu worked on modelling the dynamic drape of clothing by creating a 3D drape
meter they called "The Marilyn Monroe meter" (M3). A feature vector V, where was the
average of the maximum fold's length (peak), pmin is the average of the minimum fold's
length (trough), and parameter S was an indication of how balanced or even the folds/nodes
were, was proposed as an effective parameter that was correlated with subjective
assessment of the fabric drape.