A professional who operates battery of looms to weave plush fabric. Responsibilities include:

• Observes fabric being woven to detect weaving defects, such as exhausted filling, yarn breaks, or mechanical defects.
• Pulls out broken filling and pushes shuttle through shed or pulls yarn through guides for rapier pickup to insert new pick.
• Replaces exhausted packages with supply packages in creel.
• Examines cloth for uneven cutting after automatic knife separates double-woven pile fabric.
• Notifies loom fixer if pile is not cut smoothly; or raises flags on looms to signal breakdown or that cloth needs cutting.
• Marks or cuts fabric when specified yardage has been woven.
• Records pick clock readings of assigned looms at beginning and end of shift to maintain plant control form.
• May be designated according to type of loom operated as rapier-insertion loom weaver; wire loom weaver.