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DOT Code: 683.665-010

Industry: narrow fabrics
Alternate Titles: shuttleless-loom weaver

Tends shuttleless looms, equipped with filling-carrier needle, that weave narrow fabrics, such as ribbon, tape, and elastic: Places filling-yarn package on holders and threads ends through guides, tensions, and needle carriers, using hook. Presses button to start looms and patrols area to examine woven fabric for defects and to determine cause of loom stoppage, such as warp or filling breaks. Ties broken warp or filling ends. Notifies Loom Fixer (narrow fabrics; nonmet. min.; textile) of defective weaving caused by mechanical defects. Cuts or marks fabric when specified yardage has been woven and doffs loom or notifies Cloth Doffer (textile). May thread warp yarn through harness to change weave pattern or replace warp [Drawer-In, Hand (textile)].

GOE: 06.02.06 STRENGTH: L GED: R3 M1 L2 SVP: 4 DLU: 77