A professional who tends machine that folds (lengthwise) and winds cloth around cardboard center or tube for shipment. Responsibilities include:

• Mounts roll of finished cloth onto brackets of machine, and threads end through guide rollers and over triangular folding device, or joins ends to form continuous lengths, using sewing machine.
• Places cardboard center or tube on winding spindles and starts cloth around cardboard center or tube.
• Starts machine and pulls uneven selvages into alignment as cloth is folded and wound.
• Turns handwheel to adjust folding attachment.
• Cuts out seams and defects marked by cloth examiner, machine, using scissors or knife.
• Doffs full rolls when specified yardage has been wound.
• Feeds paper measuring tape into roll when winding cloth that stretches.
• May tend machine fed directly from another machine.
• May paste sticker showing yardage on outside of each bolt.
• May fold special lots of cloth by hand.