A professional who tends machine that raises and sets direction of fiber on surface of woolen cloth, imparting soft and lofty hand to cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Mounts roll of cloth on shaft at feed-end of machine, using hoist.
• Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Turns handwheels to raise or lower contact rollers that press cloth against gigging cylinder to control amount of nap.
• Turns valves to admit water into wet-out boxes.
• Starts machine and processes cloth back and forth through machine until nap has been raised according to specifications.
• Relaxes pressure on contact rollers and processes cloth through machine to set direction of nap.
• Doffs rolls of cloth from delivery end of machine.
• May tend machine equipped with steaming roller rather than wet-out boxes and be designated Steam Gigger.