At a textile mill, garment factory, or fabric warehouse, you log incoming cloth into the books — recording roll numbers, lots, yardage, color, and where each piece will be stored. The work tends to be careful, paper-trail-driven, and central to keeping production fed with the right material.
Your shift tends to revolve around the receiving dock, the cutting table, and the records that connect them — measuring inbound rolls, assigning lot numbers, logging yardage and width, and noting any defects flagged by inspection. You'll often work alongside receivers, inspectors, and cutting-room schedulers who depend on your data. Mislogging a lot costs production time when the wrong fabric reaches the cutter.
The harder part is often the variability of the goods themselves — width variations, shade lots, partial rolls, mill numbers that don't always match the bill of lading. Variance across employers can be real: a small custom workroom may log everything by hand; a large mill or apparel manufacturer runs on ERP or specialized textile software. The pace shifts with production demand — slow days in inventory, busy days behind a fast-cutting room.
People who tend to thrive here are steady with paperwork and patient with material that resists being categorized cleanly. The role rewards quiet accuracy more than speed, and an experienced cloth booker who knows the mills, the fabrics, and the cutting room becomes hard to replace. Paths often run toward fabric coordinator or production planning seats over time.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At a textile mill, garment factory, or fabric warehouse, you log incoming cloth into the books — recording roll numbers, lots, yardage, color, and where each piece will be stored. The work tends to be careful, paper-trail-driven, and central to keeping production fed with the right material.
Median pay for a Cloth Booker is about $43K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $33K to $60K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, and Monitoring.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 7.7% through 2034, with roughly 857,630 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Order Clerk, Inventory Control Specialist, and Senior Inventory Control Specialist.
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