To provide a tape head for a gripper loom capable of achieving the optimum wear characteristics so as not to cause roughness on yarn of specific kind.

In this tape head 1 for a gripper loom, a crest 7 which is premolded from a fixed material and is provided with a series of fixing holes in the length direction is fastened to the tape head 1 along its axis in the length direction by a thermoplastic molding material. In the operation, the thermoplastic molding material covers the majority of the crest 7 and is permeated into holes formed on the crest 7 and the tape head 1.