Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Weaver
Recognized by ordinance of 19 July 2001 ( BGBl. I. p. 1675)

Duration of traineeship

3 years
The venues for training are company and part-time vocational school (Berufsschule)

Field of activity

The trade of weaver is today considered to be one of the artistic-creative crafts. Weavers design and produce high-quality articles on hand looms. Primarily in small workshops and studios, mostly individual items are made to special customer order. The range of products includes tablecloths, decorative, upholstery and clothing material, blankets and rugs as well as kilims and costly tapestry of great expressive power and high quality. Weavers usually work in their own highly individual workshops. Other fields of activity are museum education, restoration, social therapy and pattern development.

Occupational skills

Weavers carry out their work independently on the basis of job orders and their own designs. They plan and organize their work, in particular in co-ordination with customers. In addition, they take measures for quality assurance, safety and health protection at work as well as for environmental protection.

Weavers

• select textile materials in accordance with intended use, customer requirements and profitability,
• consult with customers,
• develop and create designs in accordance with aspects of fashion, function and technology
• design weaving patterns and produce woven material of such patterns, sometimes using computer-aided programmes,
• set up different hand looms,
• produce warps and prepare the loom harness,
• produce woven material in various weaves and cloth widths,
• master a co-ordinated and rhythmic hand loom technique,
• carry out finishing work on woven material,
• renovate damaged woven material.

Last modified on: December 12, 2006