Picture a length of cloth let go and allowed to hang. It falls under its own weight into soft folds — nothing flat, nothing pulled tight. Every use of drapery circles round that hanging cloth: the folds themselves, the heavy cloth hung at a window, and the cloth sold by the metre in a shop.
From the word’s history
The word comes through Middle English draperie from Old French draperie, built on drap, which simply means cloth. The root is the cloth itself, which is why the word can point at how cloth hangs and at cloth as goods.
這個字經過中古英文 draperie，來自古法文 draperie，字根 drap 就是「布」。因為根就是布本身，所以這個字既能講布垂下來的樣子，也能講當成商品的布。
Wiktionary entry 'drapery' (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1333813978:9418): 'From Middle English draperie, from Old French draperie, from drap (drape, sheet, large cloth), ultimately of Germanic origin.'
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