This paper presents a study of the vibrating properties of textile surfaces under uniaxial tension, and proposes an experimental study from which results are compared with calculations based on membrane theory. It details the methodology which involved the use of a testing bench and experimental inventigations of three kinds of fabric with a constant sample width and tension. With the support of diagrammatic and statistical representations, the paper presents the study findings including that the comparison between experiment and theory for vibrating fabric surfaces shows that fabric dynamic behaviour approximate that of a membrane under the same boundary conditions.