How do they match: Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

  • Flat Finisher
  • Flat Ironer
  • Flatwork Finisher
  • Flatwork Ironer
  • Flatwork Presser
  • Hand Flatwork Finisher
  • Ironing Worker

  • Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
  • Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
  • Position materials such as cloth garments, felt, or straw on tables, dies, or feeding mechanisms of pressing machines, or on ironing boards or work tables.
  • Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.