It was not until the 1950s and 1960s that rapier weaving became fully commercialized, with loom technology developing rapidly. A rapier loom uses a finger-like carrier called rapier to pull the weft yarn across the loom. It can be in the form of a single rapier or a double rapier. For a single rapier, a long rapier device is required to extend across the full width of the warp. For a double rapier loom, two rapiers may enter the shed from opposite sides of the loom and transfer the weft from one rapier head to the other at a point