A draper, or grocer—any man accustomed to tying parcels securely, in fact—will fashion that knot nine times out of ten.
Half- choking with wrath and astonishment, he stood over his trembling wife with the first draper's bill he had ever received.
I would as soon go and bargain with a linen draper about a fathom of calico as go and enquire the price of vegetables while standing between two fat old market women.
This particular draper was a cloth entrepreneur who employed several wool-pickers, spinners, weavers and burlers36 for wages.
This means that the textileworkers had more or less steady employment with their draper, although the amounts they produced varied considerably.
Around ten labourers, both men and women, came to the draper to collect their wages regularly, usually once a week.
