Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for winding a fabric, during the different phases of its manufacture, on a support mandrel driven by tangential contact with driving cylinders. In this device, the driving cylinders are at least two in number and are disposed above a winding, symmetrically on either side of a vertical plane passing through the axis of said winding, these cylinders exerting a constant pressure on the winding and moving on a guiding element as the diameter increases. The invention is more particularly applicable to the winding of knitted fabric as it leaves a knitting machine.