Job Description:

• 1) Operates machine to tuft designs on articles, such as rugs and bedspreads: Places yarn packages on spindles and draws ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes.

• 2) Depresses pedal to activate tufting mechanism and guides material under tufting needles, following design specifications.

• 3) Observes tufting to detect defects, such as broken yarn and needles.

• 4) Rethreads machine or replaces damaged needles.

• 5) Rethreads machine needle with specified color of yarn to tuft multicolor design.

• 6) Workers who tend machines that tuft continuous lengths of cloth are classified under TUFTING-MACHINE OPERATOR.