Drape

Drapes are a type of furniture that provide a small amount of beauty and appease nobles.

Acquisition

Constructing a drape requires Complex Furniture to be researched as well as 150 Stuff (Fabric/Leathery), 50 Wood and 2,000 ticks (33.33 secs) of work.

Summary

Drapes provide beauty, which is impacted by the beauty factor of the textile used. For example, thrumbofur gives +60 beauty, while a cloth drape gives +7. Like with all multi-tile buildings, the beauty is applied to bottom-left most tile.

Drapes will also satisfy certain noble bedroom and throne room requirements. Unless they are Ascetic, royal barons or higher will demand 2 drapes in their throne room, and 1 drape in their bedroom.

Analysis

Used to please nobles. Outside of noble requirements, they are almost always inferior to sculptures.

A wooden small sculpture costs just 50 wood and takes up only a single tile. A poor quality wood sculpture gives +25 beauty, already better than a devilstrand drape or 3 cloth drapes. A normal quality sculpture, with +50 beauty, beats all textiles except for thrumbofur. Note that wood sculptures take a base of 12,600 ticks (3.5 mins) to make, but this is worth the saved space and resources. Therefore, if you have any remotely competent artist (around 3 Art skill), then sculptures are more cost efficient.

Armchairs tend to be a better use of textile. Armchairs give roughly +117.3% more beauty per textile used. They only take up 1 grid tile, meaning they have more beauty/tile, too. Armchairs can also be sat on to increase comfort.

Stats table

Drape	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Material	Beauty	Work to Build	HP	Flammability	Market Value
Alpaca wool	11	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	635
Bearskin	14	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	575
Birdskin	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	335
Bison wool	11	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	470
Bluefur	10	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	410
Camelhide	10	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	410
Chinchilla fur	27	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	1,040
Cloth	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	290
Devilstrand	24	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	40%	890
Dog leather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	365
Dread leather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	590
Elephant leather	12	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	150	100%	430
Foxfur	15	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	590
Guinea pig fur	21	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	60	100%	815
Heavy fur	14	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	150	100%	560
Human leather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	695
Hyperweave	41	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	240	40%	1,415
Lightleather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	350
Lizardskin	9	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	380
Megasloth wool	11	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	470
Muffalo wool	11	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	470
Panthera fur	13	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	515
Patchleather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	290
Pigskin	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	350
Plainleather	7	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	380
Rhinoceros leather	18	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	150	100%	695
Sheep wool	11	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	100	100%	470
Synthread	17	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	70%	665
Thrumbofur	60	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	200	100%	2,165
Wolfskin	13	002,000 ticks (33.33 secs)	130	100%	515