Job Description:

• 1) Selects and cuts pelts to make, alter, or repair garments or other fur articles: Selects required number of fur pelts and matches them for size, color, texture, and quality.

• 2) Arranges pelts on pattern according to design and color, placing finest pelts where they will show to best advantage and give garment symmetrical appearance.

• 3) Numbers pelts to indicate their pattern location.

• 4) Cuts off inferior or unusable parts, such as heads, necks, sides, rumps, and tails.

• 5) Slits skin of furs into diagonal strips, leaving uncut margin at edge, to obtain specified length and shape of pelt, using furrier's knife.

• 6) Cuts pelts to shape them to garment pattern.