A drawing apparatus to draw a sheet used to manufacture an absorbent article (A) includes a first protrusion group aligned in a form of rows along a drawing direction of the sheet B) a second protrusion group aligned in the form of rows along the drawing direction and that meshes with the first protrusion group, (C) the sheet being drawn in the drawing direction by making the sheet be bitten in between the first protrusion group and the second protrusion group, D) wherein a space in which the sheet is bitten with the first protrusion group and the second protrusion group includes a first region, a second region adjacent to the first region in the drawing direction, and a third region adjacent to the second region at a side opposite to the first region in the drawing direction, E) wherein a drawing amount of the sheet in the case that the sheet is bitten with the first protrusion group and the second protrusion group in the second region is greater than the drawing amount in the first region and is smaller than the drawing amount in the third region.
