Clothing record books are an excellent way to track and monitor clothing performance. Good records require including important fabric information and observations on how the clothing performed, problems that were experienced, and other information. This technical information paper includes suggested parameters to include. Most felt record books have been designed and supplied by clothing suppliers.. Some clothing performance books have been good and others did not include critical basic information. For example, some forms did not have space to log the style of felt, synthetic content, whether it was different from previous felts, why it was removed, etc.

A Daily Fabric Log is included to allow more specific, quantitative and standard operation information to be maintained on individual press fabrics. This information can be useful in analyzing specific performance differences between felts and also in predicting felt life (i.e., cleaning needs and scheduling changes).