A professional who feeds cloth into any of various textile finishing machines. Respnsibilities include:

• Aligns trucks or rolls of cloth to be processed through machine according to priority, style, and width.
• Positions truck of cloth at feed end of machine or mounts roll of cloth onto brackets at scray.
• Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine.
• Straightens cloth as it enters machine.
• May assist machine operator to thread cloth through machine.
• May be designated according to machine fed as Finishing-Range Feeder; Mercerizing-Range Feeder; Tenter-Frame Feeder.