The objective of the present study has been to quantify the hand of fabrics for the Korean folk clothes using a KES-FB system developed by HESC. The mechanical properties of fabrics for the Korean folk clothes were measured with a KES-FB system. Some adjectives most appropriate for expressing the touch sensitiveness of fabrics for the Korean folk clothes were extracted in order to determine the primary hands. For the selected primary hands, sensory tests were carried out by asking expert panels of fabrics for the Korean folk clothes and the correlations between the mechanical properties and the sensory test results were examined in detail. In addition, the working equations for describing the primary and total hand of fabrics for the Korean folk clothes were derived from the measured mechanical properties by means of a step-wise regression analysis.