Through sensory evaluation, the fabric hands and values of various textiles were ascertained. The relationship between fabric hands and values were also investigated. Two sensory evaluations, comprising of a visual evaluation and visual with tactile (visual-tactile) evaluation, were carried out using verbal expressions that people generally use. When asked to give their judgement about the quality and aesthetics of the textiles used in this study, most of the subjects shared common views. Some of fabric hands were found to be related with the quality and aesthetics values of textiles and the results were similar in both visual and visual-tactile evaluations. Tactile impression is often associated with the fabric hands of the textiles, but in this study, many of the visual impressions of the textiles were found to be similar to the visual-tactile impressions. This study also showed that subjects associated "High-grade" and "Feels beautiful/fine" with the characteristics of the physical properties of the textiles such as bending, compression and surface friction.

Value of fabric related to quality and aesthetic were investigated especially focusing on fabrics made from wool or from wool as the main material. Two sensory evaluations, comprising of a visual evaluation and visual with tactile (visual-tactile) evaluation were carried out in aspects of quality and aesthetic and also fabric hands using verbal expressions that people generally use. The visual and visual-tactile feelings of quality (high grade/low grade) and aesthetic (feels beautiful or fine/does not feel beautiful or fine) were found to be correlated well with the feelings of rough/smooth and coarse/fine; namely, the more smooth and fine the samples were, the more the subjects felt them as higher grade and more beautiful. On the other hand, quality and aesthetic feelings were independent from thin/ thick, strong/week and heavy/light feelings of the samples. This study also suggested the important physical and surface properties for the quality and aesthetic feelings. The surface property, SMD, found to relate to the quality and aesthetic feelings of both visual and visual-tactile evaluations. Prediction models were also introduced. The quality and aesthetic feelings were described well with the models by taking into account not only the surface property, SMD, but also the properties such as shear properties for the visual evaluation and the shear property, the air resistance property and/or the bending property for the visual-tactile evaluation.