Creel Stands for Textile Machinery
Textile and clothing machine spare parts — what the part does, how to specify it, and the companies that supply it.
The creel is the frame that holds every yarn package feeding a machine — dozens or hundreds of cones arranged so each end runs cleanly to its feeder without touching its neighbours. Creel stands look like simple racking, but their geometry decides yarn tension, ballooning, dust accumulation and how fast an operator can re-creel a machine. For circular knitting, where one machine may draw on scores of packages including Lycra and stripe yarns, the creel is a working part of the machine, and its stands and accessories are bought as machine spare parts.
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Types of Creel Stand
Jen-Haur, the Taiwan supplier below, lists the three standard forms. Side creel stands stand alongside the machine and feed yarn across to it — the common arrangement where floor space beside the machine is available. Vertical creel stands stack packages in tiers above or behind the feed position, saving floor space. Vertical tube creels hold packages on vertical tubes or pins, a compact arrangement suited to smaller packages and quick package changes. Each form is built with the accessories that complete it: package holders and adapters, yarn guides (often ceramic at wear points), tension devices and the framework's feet, castors or fixing points.
Creel layout is a yarn-path design exercise: every end should leave its package, pass its guide and tensioner, and reach the feeder at a similar length and angle to its neighbours.
Creels, Yarn Quality and Housekeeping
A badly arranged creel shows up as tension variation between ends, stripe faults, and ends breaking where yarn rubs a frame edge or a neighbouring package. Lint is the other enemy: creels collect fly, and stands that shed dust away from the yarn path — and feeders with covers and auto-clean features where yarn is sensitive, as on the micro-fibre positive feeders in the same supplier's range — keep contamination down. When re-creeling, operators work to a pattern so package sizes run out in sequence rather than all at once. Replacement stands and accessories are specified by machine type, number of ends, package size and the floor or mounting arrangement available.
Companies Supplying Creel Stands
Jen-Haur Company
Jen-Haur Company (Taiwan), established in 1976, is a leading circular knitting machine spare parts manufacturer. Its creel range covers side creel stands, vertical creel stands and vertical tube creel stands, and kinds of accessories. The same range includes multi-function positive feeders supplying two or more yarn types at different tensions (for striper or jacquard machines), aluminium-alloy positive feeders for micro-fibre with auto-clean, Lycra feeders, and testing equipment including sample cutters, weight scales, swatch cutters, magnifiers, tension meters, yarn length meters and cleaning guns.
Supplies: Creel Stands · Positive Feeders · Lycra Feeders · Testing Equipment · Knitting Accessories
Textile & Clothing Machine Spare Parts
- Beam Heads
- Beams for Weaving Machines
- Bulb Socket
- Cams
- Ceramic Friction Disks
- Ceramic Thread Guides
- Circular Knitting Machine Parts
- Cutters for Looms
- Cylinders
- Dials
- Electric Shears
- Feed Wheel
- Feeders
- Fineblanked Stampled Parts
- Flexible Card Clothing
- Grinder
- Grippers
- Guide Unit s - textile machinery
- Hosiery Camboxes
- Knitting Machine Spare Parts
- Loop Forming Elements
- Loose Needles
- Lycra Feeders
- Metallic Card Clothing
- Metallic Cleaning Tool
- Mounting Pads
- Papermakers for Felt Weaving
- Patterning
- Positive Feeders
- Poy Winder Machines
- Pulleys for textile machines
- Rapier Tapes
- Rapier Wheel
- Raschel Machinery Parts
- Rotary Hooks
- Safe Needles
- Sample
- Sensors for Looms
- Sewing Machinery Spare Parts
- Sinkers Rings
- Slide Electronic yarn Control Devices
- Springs for Textile Machines
- Stamped Bent Parts
- Stitch Bonding Machine Parts
- Striper
- Swatch Cutters
- Tension Meters
- Thread Break Guard
- Thread Guide Units
- Tricot Machinery Spare Parts
- Warp Knitting Spare Parts
- Warper Beams
- Weaving Machinery Spare Parts
- Weft Feeders
- Weight Scales
- yarn Carriers
- yarn Retainer
- yarn Sensor
- yarn Splicers
- yarn Suction Cups for Winders
- yarn Supervisor by Drop
- yarn Supervisor by Tearing
- yarn Supervisor by Tearing & Drop
Knitting & Weaving Machinery
- Circular Knitting Machinery
- Crotchet Knitting Machinery
- Double Jersey Knitting Machinery
- Fleece fabric Knitting Machines
- Hosiery / Socks Machinery
- Knitting Lubricator
- Knitting Software
- Mesh fabric Knitting Machines
- Pile fabric Knitting Machines
- Plush fabric Knitting Machines
- Rib fabric Knitting Machinery
- Ring Temples
- Seamless Knitting Machinery
- Sewing Machinery Attachments
- Single Jersey Knitting Machinery
- Terry fabric Knitting Machinery
- Terry Machinery
- Velour fabric Knitting Machinery
- Weaving Machines
Common Questions
What are the main types of creel stand?
Side creels standing beside the machine, vertical creels stacking packages in tiers, and vertical tube creels holding packages on vertical pins or tubes. The choice follows floor space, package size and the number of ends.
Why does creel layout affect fabric quality?
Unequal yarn paths mean unequal tensions end to end, which knits into stripes and barré; contact with frame edges or neighbouring packages causes breaks. A good creel gives every end a similar, clean path to its feeder.
What accessories does a creel need?
Package holders and adapters, yarn guides, tension devices, and the stand's mounting or castor hardware — bought to match the machine and package sizes in use.