An installment of a serial article on textile machinery at the 1900 Paris Exhibition, devoted to apparatus for the dynamometric testing of fabrics. It describes conventional test-strip sizes and cutting methods, the Perreaux, Ollivier et Cie. and Persoz testing machines, and the Alcan and Tresca experiments on friction, permeability and wear of felted versus ordinary woolen cloths. Illustrated with line drawings of the instruments.