A professional who tends machine that brushes designs into wet pile of pile fabric. Responsibilities include:

• Inserts metal rod through cloth roll and lifts roll into feeding position.
• Threads cloth over tension rod, between stencil roller with raised design and brushing rollers, and laps end around takeup roll, or sews end of cloth roll to cloth in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Starts machine, and straightens cloth with hands to remove wrinkles as cloth enters machine.
• Pushes lever to disengage winding shaft and doffs rolls of stenciled cloth onto handtruck.