To provide a method for exchanging a roving bobbin comprising turning at 90° the roving bobbin or tube thereof to be withdrawn for exchange so as not to come into contact, when it is withdrawn from a creel, with other roving bobbins being in suspension yet inside the creel, for example, so as to be no hindrance to the adjacent spinning unit.

This method for exchanging a roving bobbin 2 using a bobbin exchanger 11 comprises the following practice: roving bobbins are suspended on respective bobbin holders inside the creel 6 of a textile machine, in particular ring spinning machine, a roving bobbin 2.2 or tube 8 thereof is then gripped with the bobbin exchanger, turned at ≥900 and withdrawn below the creel 6, and then insertedly set on an empty bobbin holder 7.3.