Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Textile Research Journal
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Jose, D.J.
Right arrow Articles by Spivak, S.M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Instrumental Techniques to Quantify Textural Change in Carpet Part I: Image Analysis

D.J. Jose

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.

N.R.S. Hollies

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.

S.M. Spivak

Department of Textiles and Consumer Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A.

Work on carpet appearance change is reported, focusing on new textural measure ments of carpet pile. Three instrumental techniques to assess this texture change have been developed: image analysis, goniophotometry, and densitometry. A set of specially prepared saxony-type polyester carpet constructions were tested, both as unworn con trols and service worn to 60,000 steps of foot traffic. In Part I, actual carpet samples and their photographs were analyzed using computerized image analysis. This tech nique may prove valuable in assessing meaningful differences in carpet appearance, and particularly textural changes caused by pile/tuft definition or coherence. Gray level histograms were correlated with changes in appearance, differenoes in tuft spacing, and related carpet properties.

Textile Research Journal, Vol. 56, No. 10, 591-597 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/004051758605601001
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Clothing and Textiles Research JournalHome page
A. B. Presley
Appearance Retention of Carpets Using Image Analysis; Correlation with Subjective Method
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, October 1, 1997; 15(4): 235 - 245.
[Abstract] [PDF]