IT IS HUMAN SENSORY RESPONSE TO THE TACTILE CHARACTERISTICS. AND IT ALSO CONTAINS A DESCRIPTION OF HOW IT IS sensed by a variety of thermal, physiological and mechanical stimuli.

1. ASSIGNMENT OF CLOTHING
SCIENCE
Presentation
on
HUMAN TACTILE RESPONSES FOR TACTILE CHARACTERISTICS OF
CLOTHING
Submitted By: Shivam Tiwari-2
Branch: MMFT
Roll No.: 1604462046

2. WHAT IS HUMAN TACTILE RESPONSE ?
• It is Human sensory response to the textile material.
• Mainly two type of tactile response generated due to clothing, i.e,
1. Prickliness, scratchiness.
2. Handle related characteristics (sense of touch of fabric).
• It is sensed by a variety of thermal, physiological and mechanical
stimuli.

3. PERCEIVING TACTILE COMFORT
Clothing
Contact with the skin
Signal received by the receptors in the skin
(mechanical stimuli and frictional forces)
Sensation received by the wearer by signal from
brain

4. Tactile sensing mechanism:
a). The sensory feel of the clothing material is dependent on the mechanical stimuli due to;
- Pressure
- Frictional forces
b). When the clothing material come into contact with the human skin they stimulate the
various mechanoreceptor.
(i.e. free nerve endings, root hair plexus, Merkel’s discs, Meissner’s
corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini corpuscles)
c). In different layer of skin.
(i.e. epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous zone)

5. Mechanism of Human Response to the
external stimuli (clothing material)

6. TACTILE CHARACTERISTICS AND TACTILE RESPONSES
As far as tactile responses are concerned , all the low stress
mechanical characteristics( fabric tactile characteristics) directly or
indirectly stimulate the touch, pressure, roughness and other
mechanoreceptors of human skin (human tactile responses).
FABRIC TACTILE CHARACTERISTICS HUMAN TACTILE RESPONSES

7. PRICKLE SENSATION DUE TO CLOTHING:
• It is one of the most irritating discomfort sensations for clothing wear
next to skin.
• Sensed by a special type of pain nerve.
• When fabric contacts the skin, individual protruding fibre ends from a
fabric surface trigger the pain nerve endings.
• Perceptions of prickle sensations requires combined responses from
the group of pain nerves.
• It can be measured by assessing
~ Hairiness of yarn used
~ Surface hairiness of Fabrics

8. Prickliness in fabric is measured by measurement
of yarn Hairiness as it gives indication to problem
of fabric prickliness.
Hairiness is measured by ;
a). Shirley yarn hairiness tester
b). Zweigle hairiness tester
c). Uster tester(hairiness metre tester)

9. Human’s most tactile sensitive parts:
• The face
• The torso (central part of human body which extends the neck and
limbs)
• The hand
Initial tactile perception is received by fabric softness.
It is perceived by pressing or squeezing by fingers.
Objective evaluation of softness or fullness can be done by
compressibility and resilience characteristics.

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