A professional who inspects sample cloth swatches for weaving defects and adjusts setup of loom, using knowledge of weaving, to correct cause of defects. Responsibilities include:

• Examines loom to detect mistakes in setup, such as defective drawing-in, filling, and warp.
• Compares swatch of first woven cloth with standard swatch, using pick counter and flashlight equipped with magnifying lens, to detect defects in style, yarn, weaving, or color.
• Determines adjustments needed to correct defects and makes adjustments or notifies loom fixer.
• Examines swatch from cloth woven after adjustments.
• Records number of swatches examined and defects detected.
• May boil swatch to remove size to permit examination of threads.
• May dye swatch or have swatch dyed to ascertain dye retention of threads and to detect weaving defects.
• May test warp tensions, using tensiometer.