An 1890 trade article from The Textile Mercury on loom temples, the devices that hold woven cloth at full width during weaving. It explains why cloth contracts, briefly traces templing from hand-loom stick temples to James Bullough's roller temple of about 1842, and describes the patent steel-cap roller temple made by James Blezard and Sons of Padiham. Illustrated with drawings of ordinary and patent temples; the second page also carries short trade notes and news items.