Here are pictures of a temple that I made.  It works really well and is easy to use.   Plus, it's gentle on the fabric.   It is made out of slide type curtain rod.   I either buy one with flat ends or cut the ends (the returns) off, flatten them and wrap the loop part of a piece of self stick velcro around the ends.    When you put that at the edge of the fabric and use a small squeeze clamp to hold it on, the loops grab the fabric.   To set the width, I use a little wedge of wood and push it in as shown until it's tight.   The tape gives me something to grab on when removing the wooden wedge.  It's important to get a curtain rod that has a plastic sleeve as shown, or the wood wedge won't hold the tension and keep the curtain rod from changing length on you.   Since curtain rods come in lots of lengths, I have a couple of these for different widths of weaving.    Once I set the width, I don't have to set it again for the entire weaving - there is no slippage if the wedge is properly made and pushed in tightly.   A little piece of a wooden shingle works well for the wedge.

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Badfaerie (not verified)

Could you repost a larger version of the second picture? I am very curios here but can't quite make out what's going on and how yo uare using the wooden wedge.

SallyE (not verified)

Here are some larger pictures.  The wedge is thin at the left end (left in the second picture) and gets slowly thicker at the right end.   So if you jam it in between the two sliding pieces of the curtain rod, you can prevent the rod from sliding open or closed and that gives you the ability to set the temple to any length (weaving width) you want.  BTW, that is why you must get a curtain rod that has that little plastic collar.   Without that, one of the rods just bends and your can't create the tension needed to prevent the rods from sliding past each other.

TinaHilton (not verified)

I love this!  I can't wait to give it a try.

Badfaerie (not verified)

Thank you! This is brilliant.

Badfaerie (not verified)

I made some up last night. I used a different method of setting the length. I found that a 5\16" square nut slipped inside the outer rod, but not the inner. So one of those and a thumbscrew is my method.

This was a quick, easy to make low budget project. I only messed one up and that's because I decided to use math instead of my own eyes and I got the math wrong. The result is a perfectly functional temple, just not the length I wanted.

SallyE (not verified)

Is the length adjustable?    I'm not understanding exactly where the nut and thumbscrew go.   I'm thinking that you meant to say "bolt" rather than "nut."   I've seen curtian rods that already have such an arrangement, but with a metal screw rather than a thumb screw.  A picture please!

Sally

ammann58 (not verified)

It almost looks like you could use a woodwind reed for the wedge. Clarinet or saxiphone would probably be about right.

Great idea. Thank you.

SallyE (not verified)

A reed would work very well I think!   And it would give you something to do with broken reeds.