Tensile testing of textiles provides strength and elongation properties for natural and man-made materials such as cotton, carbon, polyester, nylon, glass and graphite. Textiles can be tensile tested in many forms, including single strands, yarns, webbing, woven and braided materials, and nonwovens. Most textile fabric tensile tests are performed as grip tests in an effort to eliminate edge effects, or as strip tests that include edge effects. For grip testing, the fixture uses jaws smaller than the width of the sample to hold the fabric sample in the center. For the strip test, the fixture clamps a fabric using jaws wider than the sample width. For both tests, the sample is clamped inside the end of the sample length. Machines used for textile tensile testing are typically low force, high elongation, constant elongation or load, tabletop systems. Although the test machine seems to be the most important factor in testing flexible materials, fixture and jig movement must be considered....