How Cloth Folds When It Meets the Floor
When drawing cloth reaching the floor and turning, as may be required for a robe, a long dress, a towel, bedsheets or other drapery, it helps to have a method. How cloth folds as it turns at the floor is not random, yet it has infinite variety, like all folds. A good approach is to use a few common folds in a somewhat random order so that the results do not look contrived or mechanical.
Suppose several parallel and radial ridge folds in a piece of cloth descend vertically and reach the floor. The cloth has to turn. To do so, each fold in the cloth must almost totally flatten itself so it can turn on straight hinge lines. Every long dress, messy bedspread, sheet and towel ...
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