Description
Drapery and Fold Reference: 12 Cloth Studies
72 drapery reference images for painters, illustrators, sculptors and 3D artists. Twelve cloth set-ups cover the classic fold types (pipe, diaper, drop, inert, zigzag and spiral) and everyday drapes, each rendered from two angles under three lighting setups: a soft key, a hard raking side light that exaggerates the relief, and a top light.
The studies
| # | Study | Fold type | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Pipe folds (gathered curtain) | Pipe | Cotton |
| 02 | Diaper fold (swag between two points) | Diaper | Cotton |
| 03 | Wool swag (diaper fold in heavy wool) | Diaper | Heavy wool |
| 04 | Tension folds between two close supports | Drop | Cotton |
| 05 | Drop folds over a sphere on a plinth | Drop | Cotton |
| 06 | Cloth over a cube | Drop | Cotton |
| 07 | Tablecloth over a table corner | Drop | Cotton |
| 08 | Cloth over a narrow column | Drop | Cotton |
| 09 | Inert folds (cloth dropped in a heap) | Inert | Cotton |
| 10 | Zigzag and stacked folds (compressed sleeve) | Zigzag | Cotton |
| 11 | Spiral folds (twisted sleeve) | Spiral | Cotton |
| 12 | Satin swag (diaper fold in satin) | Diaper | Satin |
What you get
- 72 images, 3000 × 2000 px (JPEG, quality 95)
- 12 labelled sheets (one per study: all six images, the fold type and a short explanation)
- index.csv with study, fold type, material, angle and lighting for every image
How it was made
Every drape is a real cloth simulation (Blender cloth with self-collision) of cotton, heavy wool or satin settling under gravity over simple plaster-grey forms, then rendered in Cycles. Cloth is off-white so the values read clearly.
No photographs, no scans and no AI generation.
Licensed via AssetLoom. See https://assetloom.io/licenses. Reselling or redistributing the files is not allowed.
Technical details
- Formats
- JPEG, PNG, CSV, TXT
- Software
- Photoshop, Procreate, Krita, Clip Studio Paint, PureRef, Any image viewer
- Provenance
- Procedural
- AI training
- prohibited
- Number of images
- 72
- Minimum resolution
- 3000x2000
- Subject
- simulated cloth drapery and fold types on neutral forms
- Model release status
- not_applicable
- Use restriction
- commercial
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