A professional who tends machine that removes dirt, natural gums, and waxes from greige cloth preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:

• Lifts rolls of cloth to platform at feed-end of machine, using hoist.
• Inserts rod through center of roll and pushes roll onto machine brackets.
• Sews end of cloth roll to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Turns valves to admit caustic solution and steam to vats.
• Starts cloth winding from roll on to takeup beam in initial boiloff box and from initial boiloff box onto beams in subsequent boiloff and washboxes.
• Threads cloth from terminal washbox through squeeze rollers and doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment. Records cloth lot number, machine running time, and yardage of cloth processed.
• May measure distance between colored yarn markers on cloth selvage to determine shrinkage.