Abstract: The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for processing fibers or filaments of glass or other fiber-forming material into a roving and winding the roving into a package. The disclosure includes a method and apparatus wherein a comb-like guide or shoe is engaged by a plurality of separated strands, the guide arranged to be moved downwardly from an uppermost position to a lowermost position toward a rotatable and reciprocable spiral wire traverse means, the traverse means converging the strands into a roving wound into a package. The strand guide or shoe is reciprocated laterally during a winding operation, the reciprocations of the strand guide being substantially in synchronism with the reciprocations of the spiral wire traverse means during package winding operations.