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Lib. i. Drawing, andLimming.
pilgrims travelling through the woods, the ruines of
Churches, Gastles, 8ic. but you (hall find your conceit
seconded with a thousand inventions*
CHAP. XIIL
Os Drapery,
DRapery ( so called of the French word Draft
which is cloth ) principally consisteth in the
true making and folding your garment, giving
to every fold his proper naturall doubling and shadow,
which is great skill, and scarce attained unto by any
of our countrey and ordinary Painters : insomueh that
if I would make triad of a good workman; I would
find him quickly by the folding of a garment, or the
shadowing of a gown, sheet, or such like.
The method now to beobserved in Drapery, is to wlm Methoi
draw firfi the outmost or extream lines of your gar- is to beob er-
raenc, as you will, sull or narrow, and leave wide and ved in drape*
spare places, where you think you (hall have need of
solds; draw your greater folds alwaies first, not let-
ting any line touch, or di^eftly cross another, for then
(hall you bring an irrecoverable confusion into your
work: when you have so done, break your greater
folds into less, which shall be contained within them;
I would give you an example, but every print wil shew
you the like ; all your folds consist of two lines and no
more, which you may turn with the garment at your
pleasure: begin your main and greatest folds, from,
the skirt upward, and the closer the garments sit, the
narrower you mu st make them: for the shadowing’of
every severailfold, observe the firft rule I gave you in
the Chapter of shadowing, and spare not to shadow
your folds, ( be they never so curiousiy contrived ) if
they fall inward from the light, with a double or tre-
ble shadow; as you shall see occasion: for the shadow
cake
pilgrims travelling through the woods, the ruines of
Churches, Gastles, 8ic. but you (hall find your conceit
seconded with a thousand inventions*
CHAP. XIIL
Os Drapery,
DRapery ( so called of the French word Draft
which is cloth ) principally consisteth in the
true making and folding your garment, giving
to every fold his proper naturall doubling and shadow,
which is great skill, and scarce attained unto by any
of our countrey and ordinary Painters : insomueh that
if I would make triad of a good workman; I would
find him quickly by the folding of a garment, or the
shadowing of a gown, sheet, or such like.
The method now to beobserved in Drapery, is to wlm Methoi
draw firfi the outmost or extream lines of your gar- is to beob er-
raenc, as you will, sull or narrow, and leave wide and ved in drape*
spare places, where you think you (hall have need of
solds; draw your greater folds alwaies first, not let-
ting any line touch, or di^eftly cross another, for then
(hall you bring an irrecoverable confusion into your
work: when you have so done, break your greater
folds into less, which shall be contained within them;
I would give you an example, but every print wil shew
you the like ; all your folds consist of two lines and no
more, which you may turn with the garment at your
pleasure: begin your main and greatest folds, from,
the skirt upward, and the closer the garments sit, the
narrower you mu st make them: for the shadowing’of
every severailfold, observe the firft rule I gave you in
the Chapter of shadowing, and spare not to shadow
your folds, ( be they never so curiousiy contrived ) if
they fall inward from the light, with a double or tre-
ble shadow; as you shall see occasion: for the shadow
cake