Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in commerce and business]
7. merchants

Anotations

Scope note:

Those who sell wool in its raw state for processing into products. Merchants historically have acted as purchasers, organizers, and sellers of finished textile material. For its manufacture, which required many processes, including cleaning the raw wool to final fulling and dyeing, merchants relied on an array of subordinate workers.