A professional who operates battery of looms to weave yarn into cloth. Responsibilities include:

• Observes cloth being woven to detect weaving defects.
• Removes defects in cloth by cutting and pulling out filling.
• Adjusts pattern chain to resume weaving.
• Examines looms to determine cause of loom stoppage, such as warp, filling, harness breaks, or mechanical defects.
• Ties piece of yarn to broken end and threads yarn through drop wires, heddle eyes, and reed dents to repair warp breaks, using reed hook. Pulls out broken filling and pushes shuttle through shed to insert new pick and repair filling breaks.
• Notifies loom fixer of mechanical defects.
• Marks or cuts cloth when sufficient yardage has been woven and notifies cloth doffer.
• May place quills or bobbins in battery or magazine of loom.
• May replace empty bobbins in shuttle with full ones on nonautomatic looms.
• May tend winding units attached to looms that wind filling onto quills.
• May be designated according to type of loom operated as dobby loom weaver.
• When weaving samples, is known as sample weaver.