Abstract: A series-shed loom for weaving a fabric from warp threads and weft threads. The loom has a rotor with reeds that comb through the warp threads and carries guide elements which define high points and low points. A multiplicity of elongated laying elements oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor guide the warp threads towards the rotor and insert them in the high and low points of the guide elements thereon. The laying elements are spaced from the rotor surface, they have a width in the direction of rotation, and warp threads which are adjacent in the fabric are guided over laying elements which are separated from each other by a pitch of at least twice the pitch between adjacent laying elements so that a point of intersection between the warp threads which are adjacent in the fabric is moved relatively further away from the laying elements and so that the point of intersection is further moved closer towards the rotor.