Draper Information
Draper is the now largely obsolete[citation needed] term for a wholesaler, or especially retailer of cloth, mainly for clothing, or one who works in a draper's shop. 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:
- Norman Birkett
- 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
- William Barley
In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical pamphlets.
See also
- Haberdasher
- Millinery
- Drapery
- Worshipful Company of Drapers
- Sukiennice, or Drapers' Hall, Renaissance landmark of Krakow, Poland
- Draper (surname)
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