- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends automatic looms simultaneously that weave pile yarn, filling yarn, and warp yarn material to produce carpets and rugs with various colored designs. Responsibilities include:
* Starts previously set up loom and observes weaving to detect breaks in yarn and weaving defects.
* Stops loom, pieces up broken ends, and removes filling yarn back to point where defect begins to correct imperfections.
* Pulls lever to actuate endless chain that moves spools of pile yarn into position for weaving.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads batteries or magazines of automatic looms with quills or bobbins of filling. Responsibilities include:
* Conveys quills or bobbins of filling to loom, using handtruck, and places them in battery or magazine of loom.
* Draws loose ends of filling through guides and winds ends around thread holder on side of battery or magazine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists hand drawer-in to prepare warp for weaving. Responsibilities include:
* Conveys beams of warp from warper, slasher, or storage to drawing-in frame, and removes completed draw-in assembly, using handtruck.
* Assists hand drawer-in to position harness, reed, and drop wires on drawing frame, and fastens ends of warp on frame with clamp bar.
* May place warp beam on brackets of loom, using hoist, and lay ends in position for drawing-in with reed hook. Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places drop wire on each warp thread in loom to complete drawing-in process for weaving.
* Job occurs where warp thread is not drawn through eyes of drop wires in drawing-in process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places drop wire on each warp thread in loom to complete drawing-in process for weaving.
* Job occurs where warp thread is not drawn through eyes of drop wires in drawing-in process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists hand drawer-in to draw warp yarn through loom harness and reed. Responsibilities include:
* Sits behind harness at drawing-in frame or loom, selects warp ends according to lease and places warp ends on reed hook held by hand drawer-in who draws ends through heddles and reed.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes weaving hooks from finished endless belts to prepare belts for inspection.
* Places hooks in tray.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans metal lingos (weighted heddles) used in jacquard loom harness. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts harness cords from lingo, using curved, flexible knife, and lays lingos in tray.
* Places tray of lingos in tub filled with cleaning solution, boils solution to remove dirt and oil from lingos, and rinses lingos in adjoining tub.
* Places tray of cleaned lingos in drying cabinet.
* Removes trays from drying cabinet and ties lingos in bunches with cords.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces spools of fiber yarn on loom, according to changeover chart for new pattern of woven fiber rug. Responsibilities include:
* Removes old spools from spindles of creel places spools on pallet for removal to stockroom.
* Places new spools of yarn of specified color on spindles and threads individual strands through loom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces spools of fiber yarn on loom, according to changeover chart for new pattern of woven fiber rug. Responsibilities include:
* Removes old spools from spindles of creel places spools on pallet for removal to stockroom.
* Places new spools of yarn of specified color on spindles and threads individual strands through loom.
Industry:Professional careers
