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{{Short description|Linen used for household purposes, such as table linen}}
[[File:Fotothek df roe-neg 0006545 031 Eine Verkäuferin präsentiert Kunden eine Tischde.jpg|thumb|A shopkeeper shows a tablecloth to customers in Leipzig, November 1953]]
'''Napery''' (from Old French {{lang|fro|naperie}}<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/napery | title=Napery &#124; Define Napery at Dictionary.com | access-date=2015-10-26}}</ref>) is [[linen]] used for household purposes, such as [[Tablecloth|table linen]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://webster.com/dictionary/napery | title = napery | publisher = [[Merriam-Webster]] | access-date = 2008-01-20}}</ref> Historically it was the office in a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] household responsible for the washing and storage of these items. It was headed by a '''naperer'''. This office worked closely together with the offices of the [[laundry]] (washing and storage of [[clothing]]) and the [[ewery]] (water and the vessels for drinking or washing of the person), and the three could be concurrent in smaller households.<ref>{{cite book | first = C. M. | last = Woolgar | title = The Great Household in Late Medieval England | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven and London | year = 1999 | page = 168 | isbn = 0-300-07687-8 }}</ref>
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==See also==
*[[Ailesham cloth]]
*[[Napier (surname)]]
==Notes==
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