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. Cloth merchant is strictly speaking like a Draper, the term for any vendor of cloth A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for Sewing, such as buttons ribbons and zippers The drapers were an important trade guild. A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers 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, Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical pamphlets. Rt Hon Margaret Grace Bondfield ( 17 March 1873 &ndash 16 June 1953) was an English Labour politician and feminist the first woman Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (October 24 1632 &ndash August 30 1723 was a Dutch tradesman and Scientist from Delft, the Netherlands The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer which operates John Lewis Department stores Waitrose Supermarkets and Anthony Munday (or Monday) (1560? &ndash August 10, 1633) was an English Dramatist and miscellaneous writer Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political Sir George Williams ( October 11, 1821 -1905 was the founder of the YMCA. The Young Men's Christian Association (" YMCA " or " the Y " was founded on June 6, 1844 in London England by a young man Edward Whalley (c 1607 &ndash c 1675 was an English military leader during the English Civil War, and was one of the regicides who signed the death Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 Old Style &ndash 3 September 1658 Old Style) was an English military and political leader best known Year 1724 ( MDCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven Pamphlets written by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Jonathan Swift

See also

• Haberdasher
• Millinery
• Worshipful Company of Drapers
• Sukiennice

A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for Sewing, such as buttons ribbons and zippers The Worshipful Company of Drapers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London; it has the formal name of The Master and Wardens and Brethren and The Renaissance Sukiennice ( Cloth Hall, Drapers Hall) in Kraków, Poland, one of the city's most recognizable

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