Abstract: A reed for a jet loom, in which the filling yarns are introduced into the shed by a gaseous fluid expelled from nozzles arranged spaced apart over the loom width and which periodically enter the shed, which reed has first reed blades having a profiling on their one edge and together form a guide channel for the filling yarn; and in the region of the projection of the nozzles onto the reed there are provided second reed blades the shape of which at their one edge is so selected that the guide channel is open on the wall thereof adjacent the nozzles.