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

  • Use covering cloths to prevent equipment from damaging delicate fabrics.
  • Clean and maintain pressing machines, using cleaning solutions and lubricants.
  • Examine and measure finished articles to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as tape measures and micrometers.
  • Finish fancy garments such as evening gowns and costumes, using hand irons to produce high quality finishes.
  • Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons.
  • Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
  • Select, install, and adjust machine components, including pressing forms, rollers, and guides, using hoists and hand tools.
  • Sew ends of new material to leaders or to ends of material in pressing machines, using sewing machines.
  • Shrink, stretch, or block articles by hand to conform to original measurements, using forms, blocks, and steam.
  • Spray water over fabric to soften fibers when not using steam irons.