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O*NET detailed work activityAdjust fabrics or other materials during garment production
Stays humanHands-on work
9 jobs13 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Position workpieces or materials on equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing.
- Make adjustments to patterns after fittings.
- 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.
- Fold or stretch edges or lengths of items while sewing to facilitate forming specified sections.
- Bend, form, and shape fabric or material to conform to prescribed contours of structural components.
- Maintain garment drape and proportions as alterations are performed.
- Fold or shape materials before or after cutting them.
- Shrink, stretch, or block articles by hand to conform to original measurements, using forms, blocks, and steam.
- Block or shape knitted garments after cleaning.
- Fold, twist, stretch, or drape material, and secure articles in preparation for sewing.
- Put in padding and shaping materials.
- Shape shoe heels with a knife, and sand them on a buffing wheel for smoothness.
- Stretch webbing and fabric, using webbing stretchers.