DRAPER


'Draper' is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a 'draper's shop' or 'store'. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. The drapers were an important trade guild.
A number of prominent people were at one time or another drapers:

Margaret Bondfield

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

John Lewis

Anthony Munday

H. G. Wells

George Williams, founder of the YMCA

Edward Whalley, regicide, cousin of Oliver Cromwell
In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, ''The Drapier's Letters'', a series of satirical essays.

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Haberdasher

Millinery

Worshipful Company of Drapers

★ ''Sukiennice''

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