drawn off via a breast beam 6 and a take off roller onto a cloth beam 3 a pile warp 8 is led from a pile warp beam 2 to shed 9 via an oscillating roller 5 a reed 12 of a sley 11 is driven by a loom main drive shaft 13 via a sley control means 14 furthermore a servomotor 15 is provided which is drivingly connected with the sley control means in order to set the beat up distances the servomotor 15 is connected electrically with a control means 16 in order to drive the servomotor 15 in accordance with a control program in the following one embodiment of the method is described which is applied during the weaving of three weft terry fabric fig2 is a flow diagram and shows what happens when a weft thread breakage occurs during weaving 21 the appropriate monitoring means 22 sends a fault signal to the control means 16 which in one control step sets the sley control means 14 by means of the servomotor 15 to a partial beat up distance 23 vd vd being at least so much greater than vd target or ad target that the reed and a part weft which might be present no longer alters the position of the previously correctly inserted weft thread i e a minimal distance from the previously correctly introduced weft thread is present at this time the main shaft of the loom turns until a stop position 24 is reached at which a control step stop initiation 25 takes place in the event that an automatic stop 26.