Drape
Dilshat Rubia Dola
Lecturer, Engineering
Department of Textile.
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Drape
Drape is the term used to describe the way a fabric hangs under its own weight.
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Knitted fabrics are relatively floppy and garments
made from them will tend to follow the body
contours.
Woven fabrics are relatively stiff when compared
with knitted fabrics so that they are used in tailored
clothing where the fabric hangs away from the body
and disguises its contours.
Measurement of a fabrics drape is meant to assess its
ability to do this and also its ability to hang in
graceful curves.
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Drape Depends upon
✔Bending rigidity
✔Shear behavior
✔Fabric GSM
✔Tensile property
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Cusick drape tester
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Cusick drape tester
In the test a circular specimen is held concentrically between two smaller horizontal
discs and is allowed to drape into folds under its own weight.
A light is shone from underneath the specimen and the shadow that the fabric casts is
traced onto an annular piece of paper the same size as the unsupported part of the
fabric specimen.
The stiffer a fabric is, the larger is the area of its shadow compared with the
unsupported area of the fabric.
To measure the areas involved, the whole paper ring is weighed and then the shadow
part of the ring is cut away and weighed. The paper is assumed to have constant mass
per unit area so that the measured mass is proportional to area.
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Cusick drape tester
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Drape Coefficient
Y
A2
(Xi ,Yi)
A1= Area of the supporting disk. r
A2= The area of the specimen θi
X
As = The actual area of the
projected specimen. A1
As
It depicts the fabric falling behavior when
supported partially like a garment on the body of the
wearer.
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