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Overview
The role combines textile materials, stitch techniques, sketches, software, garment production and careful finishing on clothing, accessories or home textiles.
In job descriptions, look for fabric embroidery, textile decoration, garment machines, apparel manufacturing, sewing, sketching software, material properties and detailed design work.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Embroiderers work with fabrics, thread, designs and textile surfaces. They may stitch by hand, operate embroidery machines and prepare embellishments for clothing, accessories or interior textile items.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes textile material properties, apparel manufacturing technology, fabric embroidery, textile decoration, sewing articles, garment machines and software sketches for motifs.
Salary context
Pay is best compared through stitch complexity, machine responsibility, product volume, fabric value, design input, finishing quality and whether the role includes software-based pattern work.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward sample embroidery, textile design support, specialist machine operation, costume or apparel decoration, workshop coordination or small-scale custom textile work.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names hand embroidery, machine embroidery, fabrics, garments, sketches, software or decorative finishing. Those details show the craft and production balance.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Manufacture of other textiles n.e.c.
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is embroidery machine operator.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Sewing Machine Operators
51-6031.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSewers, Hand
51-6051.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Economic activities linked to this occupation.
13.99Manufacture of other textiles n.e.c.
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Sewing, embroidery and related workers (7533)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7324e9f5-0f94-497e-af2f-42142e939a94 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 7533.2 |
| ISCO group | 7533 |
| Concept type | Occupation |