NOC 2021 · 94131 · TEER 4
Weavers, knitters and other fabric making occupations
Unit group 94131 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Weavers, knitters and other workers in fabric making occupations operate machines to process yarn or thread into woven, non-woven and knitted products such as cloth, lace, carpets, rope, industrial fabric, hosiery and knitted garments or to quilt and embroider fabric. This unit group also includes workers who perform activities such as reproducing patterns, drawing-in and tying warps and setting up looms. They are employed by textile companies and by garment and mattress manufacturing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- automatic embroidery machine tender
- automatic stocking loom tender
- Axminster carpet weaver
- ball fringe machine tender
- band-knitting machine operator
- beam changer - textiles
- blanket weaver
- braid maker - textiles
- braid weaver - textiles
- braider - textiles
- braiding machine tender - textiles
- card lacer - textiles
- carpet weaver
- carpet-tufting machine operator
- carpet-weaving machine operator
- chain builder - textiles
- chainman/woman - textiles
- circular knitter
- circular knitting machine knitter
- cloth ribber
- cloth weaver
- crochet machine operator
- crocheting machine operator
- dobby loom drawer-in
- dobby loom weaver
- drawer-in - textiles
- drawer-in helper - textiles
- drawing-in machine operator
- drawing-in machine operator - textiles
- drop-pinning machine operator - textiles
- embroidery machine operator
- embroidery machine tender
- entering machine operator - textiles
- felt press tender - textiles
- felting machine tender
- felt-making machine operator
- flat knitter
- flat knitting machine knitter
- garment looper
- glass-fibre-bonding machine tender
- glove knitter
- harness preparer - textiles
- harness tier - textiles
- hosiery knitter
- hosiery looper - textiles
- hosiery seamer - textiles
- hosiery-knitting machine tender
- jacquard card cutter - textiles
- jacquard card lacer - textiles
- jacquard card-cutting machine operator - textiles
- jacquard card-lacing machine operator - textiles
- jacquard loom heddles tier
- jacquard loom knitter
- jacquard loom pattern changer
- jacquard loom weaver
- jacquard machine knitter
- jacquard machine operator
- jersey knitter
- knitter - textiles
- knitting area patroller - textiles
- knitting machine operator
- knitting machine tender
- knotting machine operator - textiles
- lace weaver
- lease worker - textiles
- leaser - textiles
- leasing machine tender - textiles
- link machine knitter
- loom drawer-in
- loom drawer-in helper
- loom operator
- loom threader
- loom threader helper
- loom weaver
- looper - textiles
- machine ball fringe maker
- machine knitting mender
- machine loom drawer-in
- machine loom threader
- machine net maker - textiles
- machine tassel maker
- machine warp tier-in - textiles
- mattress sewing machine operator
- needle loom operator
- needle loom weaver
- net weaver - textiles
- net-knitting machine operator - textiles
- netting-making machine operator - textiles
- pad mangle operator - textiles
- padding machine operator - textiles
- pattern card preparer - textiles
- pattern puncher - textiles
- pattern weaver - textiles
- pinning machine operator
- pinning machine operator - textiles
- power loom weaver
- quilting machine operator
- rib knitter - textiles
- ribbing machine operator - textiles
- rope maker - textiles
- rope twister
- rope-coiling machine tender - textiles
- rope-twisting machine tender
- rug weaver
- sample knitter
- sample weaver
- scroll-quilting machine operator
- seamless hosiery knitter
- sock foot knitter
- sock knitter - textiles
- sock looper
- surgical pad knitter
- tassel machine tender - textiles
- textile weaver
- threader - textiles
- top knitter
- topper - textiles
- transfer knitter
- tufting machine operator - textiles
- tufting machine operator, carpets
- tufting operator
- warp drawer - textiles
- warp drawer-in helper - textiles
- warp knitting machine tender
- warp placer - textiles
- warp tier-in
- warp tier-in - textiles
- warp tying machine tender - textiles
- weaver - textiles
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$19.26 an hour
Low $16.48, high $25.00
Where it pays most
- Montérégie · Quebec$21.00
- Toronto · Ontario$19.00
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $21.00 | $16.25 – $27.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $19.18 | $17.60 – $24.07 | Limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 7 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.25 – $27.00 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $19.00 | $17.60 – $22.50 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.