A professional who tends feed-end of range that bleaches, washes, and dries greige cloth preparatory to printing, dyeing, or finishing. Respnsibilities include:

• Pulls cloth from overhead carrier, positions truck of folded cloth at feed-end of machine, or mounts roll of cloth onto brackets at scray.
• Sews cloth end to leader in range, using portable sewing machine.
• Presses button or turns handwheel to set width guide according to width of cloth.
• Turns valves to control level of chemicals in mangle, washboxes, and peroxide saturator.
• Turns knobs to adjust pressure on squeeze rollers and to set speed of range as specified for various cloth styles.
• Observes cloth entering machine to detect bad seams or flaws that might cause tear-outs.
• Stops range and seams cloth to correct flaws.
• May thread cloth through range when leader not left in range.
• May tend range that washes, bleaches, scours, whitens, and dries cloth preparatory to further processing.