A professional who inspects narrow woven fabrics, such as labels, ribbon, and tape, to detect defective weaving, color variations, and damaged or soiled fabric. Responsibilities include:

• Cuts out defective sections, using hand shears.
• Ties cut ends together, splices ends with adhesive tape, or secures ends of roll with metal pins, using hammer.
• May operate sewing machine to sew cut ends together.
• May measure width of fabric with ruler or guide to determine conformance with standards.
• May tend winding device (blocker) to wind fabric into rolls.