A Cloth Merchant is, strictly speaking, like a draper, the term for any vendor of cloth. However, it is generally used for one who owned and/or ran a cloth (often wool) manufacturing and/or wholesale import and/or export business in the Middle Ages or 16th and 17th centuries. A cloth merchant might additionally have owned a number of draper's shops. Cloth merchants could be members of the important trade guild, the Worshipful Company of Drapers. An alternative name is a clothier.

A number of prominent people were cloth merchants, including:

• Jack O'Newbury
• John Kendrick
• Sir Thomas White

Sales occupations | Garment industry