Sewers, Hand

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish, usually with needle and thread, a variety of manufactured items. Includes weavers and stitchers.

Job Task

• Softens leather or shoe material with water.
• Sews using various types of stitches, such as felling, tacking, basting, embroidery, and fagoting.
• Joins and reinforces parts of articles, such as garments, books, mattresses, toys, and wigs.
• Selects thread, twine, cord, or yarn and threads needles.
• Folds, twists, stretches, or drapes material and secures article in preparation for sewing.
• Measures and aligns parts, fasteners, or trimmings, following seams, edges, or markings on parts.
• Trims excess threads or edges of parts, using scissors or knife.
• Ties, knits, weaves or knots ribbon, yarn or decorative materials.
• Smoothes seams with heated iron, flat bone or rubbing stick.
• Attaches trimmings and labels to article with cement, using brush or cement gun.
• Draws and cuts pattern according to specifications.
• Waxes thread by drawing it through ball of wax.

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