Abstract: A cloth cutting and border applying machine for manufacturing mattresses starting from a roll wound sheet, comprising a framework, a cloth moving device, two sewing machines arranged upstream of the moving device to form longitudinal stitch lines for stitching a strip supported on a roll support along lateral edges of the cloth, a cloth finishing assembly arranged downstream of the moving device and having a sewing machine with at least two needles for providing parallel transverse stitch lines and mounted on a carriage slideable on guides to join a band to the cloth along transverse stitch lines, a cutter for cutting between the parallel stitch lines to separate a cloth portion lying downstream of the assembly from one lying upstream, a carriage actuator, and a band cutter to cut the band and the cloth transversely between the two stitch lines.