An apparatus for the manufacture of optical-fiber bundles comprises a frame, a plate-like rotor having upper and lower parallel surfaces journaled to rotate in the frame about an axis of rotation parallel to the surfaces, a fiber guide mounted in the frame along a line parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor, means for rotating the rotor, and means for moving the fiber guide coordinately with the rotor such that optical fibers passing through the fiber guide are wound on the rotor in a parallel fan-like manner.