A professional who tends machine that removes tacking stitches from selvages of fabric and opens fabric to full width after wet processing. Respnsibilities include:

• Clips tacking stitches with knife and ravels out length of stitching by hand.
• Feeds end of fabric over beating roller and through takeoff rollers and swing-folding attachment. Laps end of raveled stitching around reel and starts machine that ravels out stitching and opens cloth to full width.
• Guides cloth from swing-folding attachment into handtruck.
• May sew end of cloth to end of cloth in machine to form continuous strip, using sewing machine.