Job Description:

• 1) Operates battery of looms to weave plush fabric: Observes fabric being woven to detect weaving defects, such as exhausted filling, yarn breaks, or mechanical defects.

• 2) Pulls out broken filling and pushes shuttle through shed or pulls yarn through guides for rapier pickup to insert new pick.

• 3) Replaces exhausted packages with supply packages in creel.

• 4) Examines cloth for uneven cutting after automatic knife separates double-woven pile fabric.

• 5) Notifies LOOM FIXER if pile is not cut smoothly; or raises flags on looms to signal breakdown or that cloth needs cutting.

• 6) Marks or cuts fabric when specified yardage has been woven.

• 7) Records pick clock readings of assigned looms at beginning and end of shift to maintain plant control form.

• 8) May be designated according to type of loom operated as Weaver, Rapier-Insertion Loom; Weaver, Wire Loom.