"maker or seller of cloth or clothes," mid-14c., clother; late 15c., clothyer (late 13c. as a surname), Middle English agent noun from cloth; also see -ier, which is unetymological in this word and probably acquired by bad influence.
clothe
clothes
clothes-horse
clothes-line
clothes-pin
clothier
Clothilde
clothing
Clotho
cloture
cloud