The principal aim of this study is to explore the effect of chitosan on the physical properties of cotton fabrics in rapid curing crease-resistant processing. It was determined that compared with the traditional three-stage processing, the addition of chitosan is beneficial to the absorbency of processed fabrics, dry-wet wrinkle recovery angle, and tensile strength retention. In addition, the dry-wet wrinkle recovery angle of processed fabrics increases with the increase of curing temperature and curing treatment time, but absorbency and tensile strength retention both decrease. Also, the dry-wet wrinkle recovery angle and tensile strength retention of processed fabrics increase with higher chitosan concentrations, but the fabric's absorbency is reduced. In general, use of 0.5%asymptotic to 0.75% chitosan with DMEU curing treatment conditions of 8%, 200 degrees C for 30 s will provide optimum physical property balance for processed fabrics.