A professional who tends machine that embosses and pierces paper strips to form lace paper doilies, place mats, and similar decorative articles. Responsibilities include:

• Loads roll of paper strip on machine, using chain hoist.
• Changes dies and cutters on machine and adjusts tension and pressure on feed rolls.
• Starts machine and inspects sample run for level of embossing, arrangement of piercing, and accuracy of cutoff, and corrects faulty machining.