§ 47 Drapery on the Clay Model
This completed, if the artist desire afterwards to clothe it with thin drapery, he takes fine cloth, if with heavy, he takes coarse, and wets it and then covers it over with clay, not liquid but of the consistency of rather thick mud, and arranges it around the figure in such folds and creases as the mind suggests; this when dry, becomes hardened and continues to keep the folds.160