Draper is the now largely obsolete 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

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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