Yarn carrier

A yarn carrier for presenting a selected yarn to a pair of gripper jaws, the yarn carrier including a yarn guide passageway defining a path along which the selected yarn is longitudinally guided, the passageway having a yarn inlet end, a yarn outlet end and adjacent to the yarn outlet end yarn guides to constrain the tail of the yarn against lateral deflection in a longitudinal direction of the yarn carrier, the yarn guides moving from an extended position to a depressed position on contact with open gripper jaws, and each of the yarn guides comprising with a biasing member to bias the yarn guide from its depressed position towards its extended position to enable the gripper jaws to grip the yarn tail.