Installment No. XXIII of Dr. H. Grothe's series on the textile industry at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition, covering machinery for flax, hemp and jute. It describes scutching systems, Combe and Barbour's flax hackling machine, roving frame and spinning frame with Gordon's patent saddles, Lawson's jute breaker card and hemp-spinning machine, and Ronald's patent spinning machine built by Barraclough. The article is illustrated with engravings and diagrams of the machines.