PURPOSE: To avoid the binding of free weft thread ends of turbulent fabric selvages into fabric, to make costly measures for preventing the turbulent motion of free weft thread ends be abolished and to eliminate troubles due to the turbulence of free weft thread ends of fabric selvages during the automatically advancing removal of weft thread fragments.

CONSTITUTION: In an auxiliary reed 5a of the component of a loom reed 5 and having a weft thread insertion channel 6 used for forming fabric selvages 10, a blowing nozzle 14 having an air channel 15 at the exit and directing its outflow opening in a direction defined by the fabric withdrawal is placed toward the fabric selvages 10.