A professional who blocks (shapes) knitted garments after cleaning. Respnsibilities include:

• Shrinks or stretches garment by hand until it conforms to original measurements and pins garment to cover of steamtable or back of pressing machine.
• Applies steam to garment, as it is held in shape, by means of hand valves or foot levers.
• Measures and records dimensions of garments, using yardstick, cloth tape, or by making perforated outline on paper.
• Compares cleaned garments with recorded measurements or perforated paper and returns garments that have shrunk or stretched for reprocessing.
• May hang garments on forms corresponding to desired shape and saturate with steam from nozzle to block garments.
• May measure customer and record measurements for use in blocking customer's garments.
• May fold and wrap garments.