What Does Drapable Mean?

1. to cover, surround, or hang with cloth or other fabric, esp. in graceful folds. 2. to adjust (fabric, clothes, etc.) into graceful folds or attractive lines.

What is Drapable?

When dealing with technical textiles, the drapability is defined as the ability of textile preforms to conform to the surface of molds. It has a technical meaning and is referred to mold surface, used during the consolidation of composites, and not to an ability of textile fabric to conform to a human body.

What are drapes slang?

In the 1940s and 50s, drape was also a slang term for a cool suit of clothes. Definitions of drape. the manner in which fabric hangs or falls. “she adjusted the drape of her skirt”