Concluding installment (No. XV) of Dr. H. Grothe's series on textile machinery at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition, covering finishing machines. It describes machines for finishing silk threads and ribbons, moir\u00e9 calendering, fabric stretching machines (Ducommun, Rosshardt, Birch), starching, craping, a calender for woollen fabrics, and folding and measuring machines. Engineering line drawings illustrate the Kiessler calender and craping machine, the stretching machines, and the Charlottenburg folding machine.