A professional who tends machine that draws cloth through softening solution and winds cloth onto perforated cylinder to prepare cloth for dyeing. Respnsibilities include:

• Threads cloth from supply truck through softening bath, guides, and rollers to takeup cylinder or sews cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Presses button to start machine and observes cloth for defects.
• Cuts out flaws and sews ends together by hand or with sewing machine.
• Removes full cylinder from machine, using chain hoist.
• Records yardage cloth reading onto work ticket.
• May tend tenter frame in tandem with cylinder batcher.