ISO TC 38 Textile Standards Development Process
topic
ISO Technical Committee 38 develops international textile test method standards through a multi-stage process of new work item proposal, working group drafting, committee draft circulation, draft international standard ballot, and final international standard publication, with national body expert participation ensuring global technical consensus on method scope, apparatus, specimen preparation, procedure, calculation, and precision statement.
Role
Produces the internationally harmonised textile test method standards including the ISO 105 colour fastness series, ISO 13934 tensile testing, and ISO 9073 nonwoven test methods that underpin global textile trade, regulatory compliance testing, and certification programmes by defining methods whose reproducibility is validated through collaborative interlaboratory studies.