different between drapers vs drapery

English

drapers

From Old French draperie, from drap (“drape, sheet, large cloth”), ultimately of Germanic origin.

drapery (countable and uncountable, plural draperies)

(uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
(countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- He made also statutes for the maintenance of drapery and the keeping of wools within the realm
Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
- 1859, Thomas Macaulay, The Life of William Pitt
  people who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery

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