1. An apparatus for the grading of a tested fabric surface protrusions and the classification of fabric quality according to the grades of a live expert comprising: a profile capturing unit to receive grey scale images of silhouettes of fold profiles of said tested fabric taken in defined increments along said tested fabric; an image processing unit to receive said grey scale images and to identify protrusions for each such silhouette; and a pilling grading unit to receive said identified protrusions and to match a grading value to at least one of list comprising pilling value, hairiness value and fuzziness value.