Drapery
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Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles. It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for cloth
Drapery used as window curtains
Funerary stele of a Greek dancer, 400s BC
Portrait of Meryre and Iniuia, 18th Dynasty, c. 1300 BC
Palace servants, Persepolis, 5th-4th century BC
Draped garment
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A draped garment is a garment that is made of a single piece of cloth that is draped around the body; drapes are not cut away or stitched as in a tailored garment. Drapes can be held to the body by me
Drapery
…or hang over a three-dimensional body. Draping depends upon the fiber characteristics and the flexibility, looseness, and softness of the material. Draped garments follow the form of the human body beneath them. In art history, drapery refers to any cloth or textile depicted, which is usually clothing. The schematic…
Buddha in draped clothing.
Shaktism is a Goddess-centric tradition of Hinduism. Relief statues of Vaishnavi, Varahi, Indrani and Chamunda
In Shakta theology, the female and male are interdependent realities, represented with Ardhanarishvara icon. Left: A 5th century art work representing this idea at the Elephanta Caves; Right: a painting of Ardhanarishvara.
Females statues wearing drapes are depicted at Dashavatara Temple.