To provide a cloth presser intended for preventing finger nip accident occurring between a reed and at least one of cloth pressing members during a halt of the loom, and also preventing reed breakage, or the like.

This cloth presser has cloth pressing members 13, 27, 31 provided on a woven fabric 8 in the vicinity of a reed 6 and intended for suppressing the upward movement of the woven fabric 8 concomitant with the shedding action for a warp 2, being designed to make these members 13, 27, 31 immovable in the direction of push-up force F subjected by the woven fabric 8 but make them movable in the direction of beating up.