You can make paper resemble a texture and drape much more like fabric if you crumple it repeatedly until it is soft. To crumple paper to achieve this effect, gather it up tightly into a ball with the printed sections inside, unfold the paper and keep crumpling and unfolding it until you have a very finely grained effect. You may have to fold some sections more carefully to get the crumple lines to go across sections where there are not yet lines. After a while the paper will tend to crumple on the same lines unless you change your technique slightly.
When your paper has a texture and drape you like, take an iron and set it to a low dry heat setting. Iron your crumpled paper gently on the back away from the printing to flatten the paper slightly. Do not try to iron out all the wrinkles! Cut out your printable pieces and assemble them according to the instructions. This technique works to create fabric for dresses and some upholstery looking fabrics. If you do it with deep brown or green paper you can get an effect like aged leather. Experiment and see what effects you can get.
Note Crumpling your paper will make the overall size of your paper piece smaller as some of its size will now be caught up in tiny wrinkles. The paper will have a bit more stretch however so it should work up into items of the same scale.
Crumpled paper has a much softer texture than a freshly printed sheet of paper. It will be slightly hard to work with in small scale, and may need a bit more work to glue properly as the fold lines will inhibit glue sticking. Try it and see what you can create!
