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fabric that falls instead of fits, turning gravity into the only tailor it trusts
means To hang or arrange cloth (or anything cloth-like) so it falls loosely over something, or the loose fold of fabric that results.
from From the Old French 'draper,' to weave or make cloth, built on 'drap,' meaning cloth — itself from Late Latin 'drappus,' a word of uncertain, possibly Celtic origin. The same root clothes 'drapery' and the 'draper' who once sold fabric by the bolt; the verb-sense of letting cloth fall in folds came later, the word softening from the making of cloth to the way it hangs.
- royal origin
- medieval drapers were wealthy cloth merchants, not curtain hangers
- physics nerd
- how cloth hangs is measured in actual drape coefficients
- film trick
- draped statues hide what sculptors couldn't quite finish
- verb power
- you can drape a body, a room, or shade