Abstract: A loom restarting method restarts a loom stopped due to a loom stopping cause without entailing a “wavy set mark”. When a loom is stopped due to a loom stopping cause entailing faulty picking, the loom restarting method provides a loom stopping command, withholds the loom from a picking operation during a braking period for braking the loom to stop the same in a weaving cycle subsequent to a weaving cycle in which the loom stopping cause occurred, reverses the loom to the weaving cycle in which faulty picking occurred, removes a weft yarn picked by faulty picking, and restarts the loom to resume a normal weaving operation. The main shaft of the loom is positioned, after removing the weft yarn picked by faulty picking, at an angular position at which a picking operation is possible in the weaving cycle in which the weft yarn picked by faulty picking was removed and the reed of the loom is not in contact with a weft yarn inserted in the cloth fell of a fabric on the loom, and then the loom is restarted.

Abstract: A weft yarn end removing mechanism is incorporated into a shuttleless loom that holds leading end part of a picked weft yarn under tension by a weft yarn tightening device and beats up the weft yarn into the cloth fell of a fabric on the shuttleless loom by a reed. The weft yarn end removing mechanism includes a weft yarn sucking device for holding the leading end part of the weft yarn beaten up into the cloth fell, and a weft yarn cutting device for cutting the leading end part of the weft yarn extending between the selvage of the fabric and the weft yarn sucking device. The leading end part of the picked weft yarn being shifted toward the cloth fell is sucked through a first suction opening into the weft yarn sucking device and then the leading end part moves from the first suction opening to a second suction opening of the weft yarn sucking device.