A professional who tends machine equipped with rotary blades that trim loose threads from selvage of cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Segregates cloth according to type and width.
• Turns wheel to set width and tension guides on machine for each batch.
• Inserts rod into center of cloth roll and lifts roll onto machine brackets.
• Sews cloth end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Observes cloth feeding into scray or over inspection board to detect torn selvages, holes, or soils, and cuts out torn sections, or identifies defects with adhesive stickers.
• Ravels seam to separate roll of trimmed cloth and doffs roll, using hoist, or by pushing it onto platform.
• Starts cloth winding onto new beam or tube.
• May verify yardage in rolls.
• May work as member of team to creel and doff cloth rolls.