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Textile Produce Mender and Embroiderer
OFO Code: 683303
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 683303
- Occupation
- Textile Produce Mender and Embroiderer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6833 · Sewing, Embroidery and Related Workers
Official description
Sewing, embroidery and related workers sew together, repair, renovate and decorate garments, gloves and other products of textile, fur, light leather and other materials and fabricate tents sails, awnings and tarpaulins. They work mainly by hand using a needle and thread but may perform some tasks using a sewing machine.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Textile Produce Mender, Hand Embroiderer
- Softening leather or shoe material with water to prepare it for sewing
- Repairing defective or damaged portion of cloth or garment by hand, using matching thread and needle
- Embroidering ornamental designs on cloth by hand or machine using needle and coloured threads
- Fabricating and assembling thick cloth, canvas and like materials into sails, awning, tarpaulins and tents
- Pulling knots to the wrong sides of garments, using hooks
- Hand sewing umbrella covers to frames, tacking cover to ribs along seams and sewing corners to tip of rib and sewing ties to outside of cover to hold umbrella when folded
- Trimming ends with scissors to make mended portion look uniform with pattern of cloth
- Patching holes, sewing tears and ripped seams, or darning defects in items, using needles and thread
- Sewing or gluing decorative trimmings to articles, such as hats, caps, or millinery
- Removing stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades
- Sewing ornamental designs by hand over stamped, printed or stencilled patterns on fabric using needle and coloured thread
- Selecting thread according to specifications or colour of parts or dying thread to match colour and shade of cloth to be darned
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.