|
Draper Station (FrontRunner))
A draper is a cloth merchant. Draper or Drapers may also refer to: Places United States * Draper, Kentucky * Draper Village, North Carolina, now consolidated into Eden * Draper, South Dakota * Draper, Texas * Draper, Utah ** Draper station (FrontRunner) ** Draper Town Center station * Draper, Virginia * Draper, Wisconsin ** Draper (community), Wisconsin * Draper Island (Michigan) * Lake Stanley Draper, a reservoir near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Elsewhere * Draper, Alberta, Canada * Draper, Queensland, Australia * Draper railway station, Adelaide, Australia * Draper (crater), on the Moon Businesses and organisations * Draper Corporation, former American power loom manufacturer * Draper Correctional Facility, an Alabama state prison 1939–2018 * Draper Fisher Jurvetson, formerly Draper Associates, a venture capital firm * Draper Laboratory, an American not-for-profit research and development organization * Draper Tools, a British distributor of tools * Worshipful Company of Drapers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draper
Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. History Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period, when the sellers of cloth operated out of drapers' shops. However the original meaning of the term has now largely fallen out of use. In 1724, Jonathan Swift wrote a series of satirical pamphlets in the guise of a draper called the ''Drapier's Letters''. Historical drapers A number of notable people who have at one time or another worked as drapers include: * Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1667/1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London * William Barley (1565?–1614), bookseller and publisher * Norman Birkett * Margaret Bondfield * Thomas Burberry, Founder of fashion brand " Burberry" * Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), successful businesswoman with Coade stone * John Graunt, founder of the science of demography * Antonie van Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |