The Subjective Measurement of Leather Handle by Descriptive Sensory Analysis

摘要

Leather handle strongly relates to leather quality, and in the leather industries it is still manually assessed by experts. In this paper a new approach, Descriptive Sensory Analysis, was applied when subjectively measure leather handle and thus a comprehensive handle profile was established. Ten attributes of leather samples were identified and quantified by a trained expert panel according to agreed procedures. Principal Component Analysis was used to reduce data dimensionalities and a conception 3D handle space was proposed and demonstrated to exhibit the handle attributes of leather.