To provide a rapier electric drive for rapier loom, with no large-sized design, affording driving torque enough and compatible with high-speed looms.

In a rapier loom of such a type as to drive a driving wheel for giving reciprocating motion to a rapier head by the electric drive for exclusive use for the loom, wherein the electric drive is drive-controllable independently of the main driving motor in the loom, the electric drive is characterized in that it includes multiple driving motors and one of them is subject to control of its drive by position control, the others being subject to control of their drives by torque control.