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hand: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a single construct in textile science Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
hand1 CONSTRUCTFabric handPEIRCE · FABRIC HANDLE

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Textile science

How a cloth feels to the touch

In textiles, hand (or handle) is the quality of a fabric as judged by touch: the blend of stiffness, smoothness, softness, drape, and warmth a person feels when handling cloth. Long treated as purely subjective, it was reframed as something measurable: F. T. Peirce's 1930 The “handle” of cloth as a measurable quantity proposed deriving tactile qualities such as stiffness from physical tests like bending length, launching the instrumented study of fabric hand that later systems extended. The referent is the tactile character of a fabric, tied to measurable mechanical properties, and distinct from the everyday meanings of “hand.”[1]

Unit
The tactile character of cloth, linked to mechanical properties such as bending stiffness
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated from low-load mechanical tests (bending, shear, compression, surface friction) that correlate with felt qualities

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References

  1. Peirce, F. T. (1930). The “handle” of cloth as a measurable quantity. Journal of the Textile Institute Transactions, 21(9), T377–T416. https://doi.org/10.1080/19447023008661529

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