PURPOSE: To prevent the shrinkage of a weft without lowering the quality of a woven cloth, when a loom is reversed to a restarting angle.

CONSTITUTION: This invention concerns an epicyclic gear-type selvadge apparatus rotating in a synchronous manner with a shedding shaft of a shedding motion driven by a specialized driving motor. If the loom is stopped, it is reversed to the restarting position to return the shedding. During this operation, the synchronous control of the driving motor is once stopped at a specified shedding position and the driving motor is kept in a stopped state. After the loom is restarted, the synchronous control of the driving motor with the shedding shaft is restored when the shedding shaft arrives at the specified shedding position.