In a loom of the type wherein the filling yarn is inserted into the warp shed in the form of cut lengths and wherein a reed serves for beating-up the inserted filling yarn into the fabric at the fell of the cloth, the combination therewith of improved means for severing the terminal ends of filling yarns projecting outwardly from at least one of the selvages of the fabric being woven; which improved means comprises positioning a cutter adjacent at least one end of the reed, and providing a relatively wide widthwise extending opening in the reed adjacent the end where the cutter is positioned, with the opening being of a width substantially greater than the dent spacing of the reed; so that when the reed is reciprocated in beating-up the filling yarn into the fabric, the cutter has portions thereof that are positioned in the opening in the reed for severing the terminal ends of the filling yarn close to the selvage of the fabric being woven.