Knitter
Also called lacemaker, hand knitter, warp knitter
Knitters create textiles or fabric by knitting pieces of yarn. They use traditional techniques to create interlocking loops of yarn which form a uniform piece of fabric. Knitters use different techniques, needles and yarn materials to create knitted materials of diverse proportions.
What you'd do
Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials · ILO- Spinning and dyeing with natural dyestuffs, wool, cotton and other fibres
- Lace-making and weaving, knitting or embroidering various garments and articles for household use
- Preparing and dyeing hides with natural dyestuffs and making traditional footwear or handbags, belts and other accessories
- Spinning and winding yarn by hand
- Drawing warp threads into loom by hand
- Weaving plain or figured cloth, tapestry, lace, carpet or other fabrics on hand looms
- Making carpets by using a knotting technique
- Knitting garments and other articles on hand-operated machine or by hand
- Crocheting or making braid by hand
- Making nets by hand
- Grading and classifying natural textile fibres
- Washing wool fibres
- Cleaning and fluffing textile fibres
- Forming fibres into sliver, combing them, combining sliver into sliver laps or forming sliver into rove
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people, mostly with colleagues
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,100 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,900 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in textiles (clothes, footwear and leather) is the usual route.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.13 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 14 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).