Abstract: There are disclosed packages for pile fabrics which safeguard against the layers in a fabric roll bearing against each other and against the entire roll from "telescoping". The fabric is wound on conventional hook strips. Cupped eyelets are formed in the strips, a pair of eyelets straddling every fabric layer. After the roll of fabric is wound, a skewer is passed through the fabric layers and the eyelets along each strip. Even if a fabric edge is torn off from a hook, as often happens during rough handling of a package, the layer is prevented from bearing against an adjacent layer because its edge is limited to movement between the two straddling eyelets along the skewer; and if the fabric edge is torn off from many or all hooks on one side, the roll is prevented from telescoping toward the opposite side when the package is stood on its end.