Weaving machine having movable shed opening limiter device

A weaving machine for producing a woven fabric, comprising:

• a shedding device configured and arranged to alternately open and close a loom shed of warp material thereby forming an interlacing point at which a respective upper warp sheet and a respective lower warp sheet of said warp material of said loom shed cross one another;
• a weft insertion device configured and arranged to insert a band-shaped or tape-shaped weft material into a weft insertion zone in said loom shed across said warp material;
• a fabric movement arrangement configured and arranged to move said warp material back and forth in an upstream direction and a downstream direction, wherein moving said warp material in said upstream direction moves said interlacing point toward said weft material in said weft insertion zone;
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• a shed limiter device comprising an upper limiter member positioned above said warp material and a lower limiter member positioned below said warp material, wherein said shed limiter device is configured and arranged to limit an opening of said loom shed of said warp material and is movable back and forth in said upstream direction and said downstream direction, and wherein said shed limiter device is configured and arranged to move relative to said warp material and said weft material without tightly clamping or tightly pinching said warp material and said weft material at least when said shed limiter device moves in said upstream direction.