Abstract: An apparatus is provided for automatically fabricating textile articles, such as bath throw rugs and the like. This apparatus includes devices for intermittently feeding continuous textile material suitable for fabricating the articles from a supply position to a cutting position in the apparatus. Devices successively cut slightly oversized textile articles from the continuous textile material in the cutting position. A robot mechanism successively picks-up and transports each cut article from the cutting position to an edge finishing position in the apparatus, rotates the cut articles in a predetermined pattern during edge finishing thereof and then transports the fabricated textile article to a stacking position and releases the fabricating textile article.