There is provided a warp knitting machine having needles and warp thread guides. A weft thread magazine has forwarding chains for providing the weft thread. Weft thread insertors bring the weft thread to the outtake side of the needles. At the upper dead point of the needles the weft threads are located in an inlay space between the outtake side of the needles and the innermost warp thread extending from the thread guides. Several of the innermost thread guides are provided with a rearwardly directed protrusion which, during the forwardly directed through-swing of the thread guides substantially closes off the inlay space at the upper dead point of the needles. This system reduces substantially the number of weft thread errors.