A professional who tends machine that polishes hand-starched skeins of jacquard twine. Respnsibilities include:

• Hangs skeins on pole and stretches skein to specified length.
• Removes laces that bind skeins and dips skeins into starch barrel.
• Attaches ends of starched skeins to hook that is rotated by handcrank and turns crank to wring excess starch from skeins.
• Spreads skeins on rollers of polishing machine and starts machine.
• Observes operation of machine and spreads strands to prevent bunching.