A professional who tends machine that removes excess starch or stiffness from dyed or printed cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Slides cloth roll onto machine brackets.
• Threads cloth over and under alternate rollers that have surface of wavy ridges or rollers that are covered with metal buttons.
• Starts machine and observes operation to detect binding of cloth or machine malfunction.
• Pushes lever to reverse machine, running cloth through several times until texture meets specifications.