A professional who inspects finished or unfinished cloth for weaving or finishing defects, using power-driven examining frame. Responsibilities include:

• Pulls fabric over rollers, down over inspection board, and wraps cloth end around takeup beam or tube, or positions supply truck under swing-folding attachment. Sets yardage clock at zero and presses button or pedal that starts movement of cloth over inspection board.
• Scans cloth for defects, such as grease spots, slubs, mispicks, uneven selvages, and irregularities in color.
• Marks defects with chalk, thread, or adhesive sticker.
• Records information, such as defects, cloth style, and yardage inspected.
• May correct reparable defects, such as soils, slubs, or loose ends, using steel pick, scissors, knife, or cleaning solution.
• May cut irreparable defects from cloth, using scissors, and sew cloth ends together, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
• May mount and doff rolls of cloth, using hoist.
• May grade cloth according to quality, using written standards.
• May cut or tear strip from end of cloth for sample.
• May count number of picks per inch, using pick counter.
• May feel cloth to compare texture with that of sample.
• When reexamining cloth to verify defects marked by other workers, is designated rechecker.
• May be designated according to fabric examined as asbestos-cloth inspector; base-cloth inspector; greige-goods examiner; knitted-cloth examiner; lace inspector.
• May be designated: finished-cloth examiner; coated fabrics inspector; silk examiner; tire-fabric inspector; woolens examiner.