Draper - Definition and Overview

The term draper can refer to a number of individuals and places. Please see the article Draper (disambiguation) for other uses of the term.

Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods. The drapers were an important trade guild.

A number of people of prominent people were at one time or another drapers:

• Margaret Bondfield
• John Lewis
• Anthony Munday
• H.G.Wells
• George Williams,founder of the YMCA

In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote, in the guise of a draper, The Drapier's Letters, a series of satirical essays.

See also: Worshipful Company of Drapers