Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing waste selvages (11) formed when weaving fabric on a loom includes a pair of selvage removal rollers (19, 23) fitted with friction coverings and driven against one another to form a gripping nip for engaging and drawing the waste selvage away from the woven fabric, whereby the waste selvage is first fed to the peripheral surface of the first one of the pair of removal rollers (19) over a wrapping angle larger than 150.degree. and preferably larger than 180.degree., before reaching the clamping nip between the rollers (19,23). Alternate embodiments of the invention are described.

Abstract: A split loom with a stationary loom part and a removable loom part includes selvage-formers mounted in the removable loom part, at least one selvage-former being driven by a shaft entering the loom and also mounted on the removable loom part, the shaft being connectable by a separable clutch to a drive shaft mounted on the stationary loom part.

Abstract: Device for forming a selvedge or selvedges on woven cloth, consisting essentially of two arms (1, 2) whose ends move to-and-fro in opposite directions, where the first arm (1) has at its end (3) a rotatable thread guide block (5) for the crossing thread or threads, and where the second arm (2) has at least one needle-shaped thread guide (6, 6A, 6B) for the needle thread or threads (27, 27A, 27B) so that the needle thread or threads can be moved up and down in front of the rotatable thread guide block (5) as a result of the motion of the arms (1, 2).