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

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

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