DRAPERY Copy link • DRAPERYCloth manufacture, textrinum (sc. opus, weaving; Cic.). Cloth; woollen cloth [Vid: CLOTH]. Drapery (as applied to the representation of dress in painting and sculpture), vestitus: amictus (dress): rugae, sinus (the folds, etc., of the dress). Any painter or sculptor is famous for his draperies, *pictor (or statuarius) aliquis rugas sinusque vestium singulari opere artificioque exprimit or imitatur. Painters take great liberties in their draperies, *pictoribus in adornandis vestibus magnam omnes damus impunitatem et licentiam.