diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 39efbc1..a86cdd5 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.1.10 (2016-2-11)
+------------------
+- render() accepts optionnal jinja_env argument :
+  useful to set custom filters and other things
+
 0.1.9 (2016-1-18)
 -----------------
 - better subdoc management : accept tables
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 4ae68fe..387231c 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -118,6 +118,21 @@ If you want to add dynamically changeable style, you have to use both : the `{{r
 You can change color, bold, italic, size and so on, but the best way is to use Microsoft Word to define your own *caracter* style
 ( Home tab -> modify style -> manage style button -> New style, select ‘Character style’ in the form ), see exemple in `tests/richtext.py`
 
+Jinja custom filters
+--------------------
+
+``render()`` accepts ``jinja_env`` optionnal argument : you may pass a jinja environment object.
+By this way you will be able to add some custom jinja filters::
+
+    from docxtpl import DocxTemplate
+    import jinja2
+
+    doc = DocxTemplate("my_word_template.docx")
+    context = { 'company_name' : "World company" }
+    jinja_env = jinja2.Environment()
+    jinja_env.filters['myfilter'] = myfilterfunc
+    doc.render(context,jinja_env)
+    doc.save("generated_doc.docx")
 
 Examples
 --------
diff --git a/docxtpl/__init__.py b/docxtpl/__init__.py
index 01b1ff1..5d29d32 100644
--- a/docxtpl/__init__.py
+++ b/docxtpl/__init__.py
@@ -59,16 +59,19 @@ class DocxTemplate(object):
 
         return src_xml
 
-    def render_xml(self,src_xml,context):
-        template = Template(src_xml)
+    def render_xml(self,src_xml,context,jinja_env=None):
+        if jinja_env:
+            template = jinja_env.from_string(src_xml)
+        else:
+            template = Template(src_xml)
         dst_xml = template.render(context)
         dst_xml = dst_xml.replace('{_{','{{').replace('}_}','}}').replace('{_%','{%').replace('%_}','%}')
         return dst_xml
 
-    def build_xml(self,context):
+    def build_xml(self,context,jinja_env=None):
         xml = self.get_xml()
         xml = self.patch_xml(xml)
-        xml = self.render_xml(xml, context)
+        xml = self.render_xml(xml, context, jinja_env)
         return xml
 
     def map_xml(self,xml):
@@ -76,8 +79,8 @@ class DocxTemplate(object):
         body = root.body
         root.replace(body,etree.fromstring(xml))
 
-    def render(self,context):
-        xml = self.build_xml(context)
+    def render(self,context,jinja_env=None):
+        xml = self.build_xml(context,jinja_env)
         self.map_xml(xml)
 
     def new_subdoc(self):
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