To provide a weft inserting device enabling a textile fabric to be woven continuously without the need of replenishing wefts over a long period.

This weft inserting device, which is made up of a shuttle 403 having a hooking/unhooking means for actuating an arm 416 projected on one side of the shuttle body in halting a weft travel and a pair of cones 404, 404' provided outside the shuttle 403 and wound with wefts D, D', respectively, has such a scheme that, when a picking operation is made on shuttle boxes 302 standing against each other by a desired means, one party of the wefts D (D') unreeled on both sides of a group of warps C from the cones 404 (404') is hooked on the arm 416 and passed through the group of warps C divided into two above and below; when the weft travel is halted in the shuttle boxes 302, the arm 416 is set in motion and the weft D (D') is unhooked; by repeating the above-mentioned operation alternately, a textile fabric is woven.