Textile bobbin

In a textile bobbin of the type having a butt portion for reception into the clamping spring of a weaving shuttle, an elongated barrel extending outwardly from the butt portion, the barrel portion terminating in an outer end of reduced size, and a resilient cup-like tip mounted over the reduced outer end to protect it from excessive wear and damage, the improvement comprising an annular recess in the bobbin barrel at the base of the reduced end defined by a rounded shoulder on the bobbin's outer end of reduced size and an annular shoulder having a surface whose plane is normal to the axis of the bobbin, and a resilient cup-like tip having an enlarged inwardly directed flange received within said annular recess to hold said tip on the outer end portion of the bobbin, said flange being shaped for reception into said annular recess and being of a width on its exposed outer portion which is greater than the width of its inner portion and being of a height which is less than the height of said recess' inner shoulder.