In the conventional subjective method, wrinkled fabric specimens are visually compared with the standard replicas under a specific light source in order to be evaluated and classified. In the present work, the rank ordering method is incipiently applied for grading a wide range of wrinkled fabrics. The five standard replicas are orderly placed among the ranked specimens and their grades are extracted. Results show that the specimens ranked by the ordering method are reliable and can be used for grading of wrinkled fabric to overcome the problems associated with the standard method such as the limited grading range and high and non uniform intervals between each pair of replicas. Conventional image processing methods used for grading fabric wrinkle are also applied on images taken from the ranked specimens. Among the methods studied in the literature Radon transform, wrinkle paths length and fractal dimension show a good correlation with the wrinkle grades derived from the rank ordering method.