A holder (18) for receiving and frictionally securing yarn package (12) wound onto tubes of various inner diameters is disclosed. The holder comprises a base support which includes an arm (20) adapted to be attached to the textile machine. Extending at a right angle from the base arm is a cantilever contact arm (24) which is rigidly connected to the base. The contact arm has a contoured support arm (28) pivotally connected to its free end and extending alongside the contact arm to a point near the base support. A spring (34) is interposed between the contact arm (24) and the contoured support arm (28) and urges them apart, and against the inner walls of a yarn tube (13) placed about the contact arm and the contoured support arm.
A second embodiment has two contoured support arms, one of which is pivotally connected to the contact arm at a point intermediate a free end portion of said contact arm and the base support. A resilient second contoured support arm is affixed to the end of the contact arm and has a portion which extends generally transverse over the longitudinal axis of the contact arm. One end of the second contoured support arm extends beyond the tube contact surface of the contact arm for a slight distance not to exceed three-sixteenths of an inch and the other end of the second contoured arm extends towards said base support at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the contact arm. The second contoured support arm cooperates with the first in firmly anchoring intermediate yarn tube on the support while the second contoured arm is adapted to handle yarn tubes of very small diameters.