• Previous work by Matsuo
• Kawabata organized HESC committee (1968)
• Completion of the system, Japan (1975)

• Three components of the whole system

  - the instruments

  - the equations

  - the standard samples

Merits

• High accuracy of the instruments
• Tools for complete measurements of fabric properties
• Stimulate new interests in fabric hand research

Problems

• High cost and complex operation
• Redundancy in measured properties
• Co-linearity in regression analysis

• Ambiguity in primary hand definitions

  – overlapping and unstable

  – inconsistent

• Inherent subjectivity - Japanese preference