Part V of a series by Dr. H. Grothe on the textile industry at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition, covering silk weaving machinery and preparatory apparatus. It describes Caspar Honegger's silk skein-sorting device, warping mills, beaming machines and power looms for taffeta, satin and marzelline. It also notes silk and ribbon looms from Swiss, German and Austrian exhibitors, and mentions that Japanese, Indian and Chinese looms were shown.