Hi Julian,
apparently Highend3d seems to be down at the moment... -->
https://www.highend3d.com/
but as I recall I think they have a couple of melscripts related to Cloth... that you maybe can use... when Highend3d works again I will suggest you to take a look and see if it is something you can use...
and other thing you maybe can do is talk to this fellow... who is working on a cloth program... -->
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecloth/
https://freecloth.enigmati.ca/
the following is taken from the overview site of it...
https://freecloth.enigmati.ca/overview.html
Freecloth is not yet ready for regular users. It's still under development, and does not have a polished user interface, or plugins for popular modeling software packages. At present, there's just a library and a small demonstration application. It is unlikely that I will have the time to implement a plugin for 3dsmax or Maya. If you are interested in hiring me to write such a plugin, please contact me. My e-mail is drpritch [at] alumni.uwaterloo.ca (replace [at] with the @ sign).
maybe he can make something... e.g. a plugin for Maya but I don't know if that will be for free or it is gonna cost something... 
regards
Strarup
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