7318-Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials

Job Title: 

Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials

Job Description: 

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

Tasks: 

Tasks include

  • spinning and dyeing with natural dyestuffs, wool, cotton and other fibers
  • 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 fibers
  • washing wool fibers
  • cleaning and fluffing textile fibers
  • forming fibers into sliver, combing them, combining sliver into sliver laps or forming sliver into rove.
Specific Occupations: 

73181
Handicraft worker, hand (garments/garment knitting/textiles)/ Maker(button/ zipper slide-fastener)/Yarn dyer

73182
Weaver, hand (cloth/ coir/ jacquard/lace/axminster)/ Maker, tapestry (hand)/ Drawer-in, (textile weaving)/ Tufter)(carpet weaving)

73183
Foreman, weaving (carpet/ textile/ leather products/ bleaching/ wool sorting and grading)

73184
Bleacher/blender/carder/comber/grader/opener/picker/preparer/rover/teaser/clearer /repairer,fibre (textiles)/ Degummer,hand/Drawer, , fiber(textile

73185
Gasser(cotton/silk)/ Scourer(wool)/ Cutter(jute)/ Mixer, batch (jute)/ Selector, cotton

73186
Spinner (mule/ring/ thread and yarn)/ threader, loom (hand)/ Knitter/ Steamer, garments (hand)/ Lapper(ribbon/fibre/sliver (textiles))/ Dyer, hand (garments/ yarn)

73187
Maker(braid/ net (fishing/safety))/ Stripper(bobbin)/ Carpet-maker/Comber, fibre: textile/Crocheter/Grader, fibre: textile/Maker, artificial flower Maker, braid/Maker, carpet

73188
Handicraft worker, hand (leather products)/(finisher/fitter/splicer) (leather products)/Maker(belt/ leather bag/ leather suitcase)/Carpets/garments/ knitting/ textile weaving.

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Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2345