diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
index f64c9e416..c2b92b75b 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Textile.hs
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ blockParsers :: [GenParser Char ParserState Block]
 blockParsers = [ codeBlock
                , header
                , blockQuote
+               , hrule
                , anyList
                , rawHtmlBlock'
                , maybeExplicitBlock "table" table
@@ -151,6 +152,18 @@ blockQuote = try $ do
   whitespace
   para >>= return . BlockQuote . (:[])
 
+-- Horizontal rule
+
+hrule :: GenParser Char st Block
+hrule = try $ do
+  skipSpaces
+  start <- oneOf "-*"
+  count 2 (skipSpaces >> char start)
+  skipMany (spaceChar <|> char start)
+  newline
+  optional blanklines
+  return HorizontalRule
+
 -- Lists handling
 
 -- | Can be a bullet list or an ordered list. This implementation is
diff --git a/tests/textile-reader.native b/tests/textile-reader.native
index 130866a37..d657521e6 100644
--- a/tests/textile-reader.native
+++ b/tests/textile-reader.native
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Pandoc (Meta {docTitle = [Str ""], docAuthors = [[Str ""]], docDate = [Str ""]})
 [ Para [Str "This",Space,Str "is",Space,Str "a",Space,Str "set",Space,Str "of",Space,Str "tests",Space,Str "for",Space,Str "pandoc",Space,Str "Textile",Space,Str "Reader",Str ".",Space,Str "Part",Space,Str "of",Space,Str "it",Space,Str "comes",LineBreak,Str "from",Space,Str "John",Space,Str "Gruber",Str "'",Str "s",Space,Str "markdown",Space,Str "test",Space,Str "suite",Str "."]
-, Para [Strikeout [Str "-"],Str "-",Str "-"]
+, HorizontalRule
 , Header 1 [Str "Headers"]
 , Header 2 [Str "Level",Space,Str "2",Space,Str "with",Space,Str "an",Space,Link [Str "embeded",Space,Str "link"] ("http://www.example.com","")]
 , Header 3 [Str "Level",Space,Str "3",Space,Str "with",Space,Strong [Str "emphasis"]]