PURPOSE: To impede a wrinkle from its generation in the case of starting to wind a fabric to an empty roll.

CONSTITUTION: An empty roll 21 is left as stored in a stocker 22, and when a fabric of a cloth winding roll 8, positioned in a winding drive part 3, leads to a predetermined winding amount, the cloth winding roll 8 is delivered to the front of a loom from the winding drive part 3 by an arm 62. A stopper 33 is retracted from the stocker 22, to supply the empty roll 21 onto the winding drive part 3 from the stocker 22. Thereafter, a lever 81 is turned upward. In this way, the fabric 4 connected to the delivered cloth winding roll 8 is pressed to the empty roll 21 on the winding drive part 3 by a bar 82, cut off by a cutter 93 in a condition that tension is given to the fabric and wound with a loom side cut part of the fabric 4 left as overlapped with the empty roll 21 on the winding drive part 3 by injection air from a nozzle 100.