Abstract: A flexible type rapier loom having a loom body in which a shed is formed in warp threads, a wheel rotatably mounted on the loom body and oscillatedly driven back and forth, a flexible tape of a magnetic and elastic material attached at one end thereof to a circumference of the wheel and carrying a weft holder at the other end thereof, and a plurality of magnetic attracting mechanisms provided on the outer circumference of the wheel to attract the flexible tape to the outer circumference of the wheel by strong magnetic forces, thereby inserting the flexible tape into the shed and withdrawing the flexible tape from the shed to insert a weft into the shed in an assured manner even at a high speed operation of the loom.