// Unit group · 7318

Handicraft Workers in Textile, Leather and Related Materials

Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials apply traditional techniques and patterns to produce woven fabrics, knitted, embroidered, woven and other garments and articles for household use, as well as traditional footwear, handbags, belts and other accessories.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 73 Handicraft and Printing Workers / 731 Handicraft Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

Air and dustChemicalsSitting and standing

// Hand tools

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spinning and dyeing with natural dyestuffs, wool, cotton and other fibres

lace-making and weaving, knitting or embroidering various garments and articles for household use

preparing and dyeing hides with natural dyestuffs and making traditional footwear or handbags, belts and other accessories

spinning and winding yarn by hand

drawing warp threads into loom by hand

weaving plain or figured cloth, tapestry, lace, carpet or other fabrics on hand looms

making carpets by using a knotting technique

knitting garments and other articles on hand-operated machine or by hand

crocheting or making braid by hand

making nets by hand

grading and classifying natural textile fibres

washing wool fibres

cleaning and fluffing textile fibres

forming fibres into sliver, combing them, combining sliver into sliver laps or forming sliver into rove.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Carpets handicraft worker
- Carpet weaver
- Cloth weaver
- Knitter
- Leather handicraft worker
- Loom threader
- Textile fibre comber
- Textile fibre drawer
- Textile fibre rover
- Textiles handicraft worker
- Thread and yarn spinner

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Textile fibre combing machine operator - 8151
- Knitting machine operator – 8152
- Weaving machine operator - 8152

Indexed job titles 43