Abstract: A fabric or cloth templing device for a loom comprises a part provided with a temple containing a porcupine or needle roller or ring. Over the temple there extends a domed cover member in order to place the selvedge or marginal region of a cloth or fabric web into contact with the needled jacket surface or shell of the porcupine roller or ring. Arranged after the temple is a contact roll which coacts with a countersurface, in order to subsequently fixedly retain the fabric which has been spread by the porcupine rollers. By virtue of these measures it is possible to ensure in a most simple manner an effective traction relief with increasing fabric tension.