A professional who operates battery of looms to weave multiple widths of narrow fabric, such as ribbon or tape. Responsibilities include:

• Observes weaving to detect exhausted filling packages and replaces exhausted packages with full packages.
• Replaces defective shuttles, tension springs, and shuttle eyes, using handtools.
• May operate looms equipped with automatic motions to stop loom as yarn breaks or after weaving specified number of picks. May draw-in warp yarn.
• May tend machine to wind filling.
• May be designated according to type of fabric woven as ribbon weaver; tape weaver.