Job Description:

• 1) Operates machine to wind yarn from short spools onto longer spools in specified color arrangement to prepare yarn for weaving into rugs: Positions spools of yarn on creel as specified by pattern chart.

• 2) Threads ends of yarn through reeds, tension devices, and guides, as specified by pattern chart.

• 3) Adjusts tension on thread.

• 4) Clamps ends to takeup spool.

• 5) Starts machine and observes winding for yarn tangles and breaks.

• 6) Pieces up broken ends.

• 7) Stops machine when specified amount of yarn has been wound, cuts yarn with cutting blade, places clamp onto spool to hold yarn in place, and replaces spool with empty one.

• 8) May be designated according to machine for which yarn is prepared as Rug Setter, Six-Quarter Machine; Rug Setter, Three-Quarter Machine.

• 9) May operate machine to wind yarn onto loom beams and be designated Rug Setter, Velvet.