These illustrations are of cloth-dealers; for images of clothing-makers, see the tailors, seamstresses, & sewing tools linkspage.
- A draper shows customers a piece of cloth in the Saint James the Greater Window at Chartres Cathedral, c. 1205-1230
- Linen clothing, Tacuinum Sanitatis, late 14th-15th century
And whan that I am a drapere, I hange out courteyns in the lyght, for to blynde folkes syght, that men may not sen at ye full nothar the colowr nor the wull; set it at hyghe pris therto, and swere I myght ha sold it so the laste day, to a chapman: thus I begyll many a man with this hand of whiche I tell, both when I by and sell.
Six-handed Avarice (ll. 18088-18098), Lydgate's translation of The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
- Marketplace, Le Chevalier errant (BNF Fr. 12559, fol. 167), c. 1400-1405
- Currency as a a measure of commercial trade (fol. 145r), Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Rouen I.2 927, fol. 145r), 15th century
- Drapers in the Mendel Hausbuch:
Seytz Lang (1434),
Cuncz Dorenberger (1443),
Hans Hoppinger (1450),
Concz ester Reicher (1529)
- Fols. 199v and 244, Schachzabelbuch (Stuttgart Landesbibliothek, Cod. poet. 2), 1467
- Cy speaks about the state of merchants and commerce (cloth merchants showing honesty in weights and measurements), Le Livre de bonnes moeurs de Jacques Legrand (Musée Condée 297, fol. 122v), c. 1490
- Draper at the bazaar at Kûfa, Mahzan al-Asrâr (BNF Supp. turc 978, fol. 41), first half of the 16th century
- Michel Laloyer, Chants Royaux du Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens (BNF Fr. 145, fol. 43v), 1518
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