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Excerpt from Handbook for Carpet Measurers, Cutters and Salesmen: Including Topics of General Interest to the Trade With Illustrations and Diagrams Although intended as a guide to Carpet Measurers, especially for those who lack experience, the information and hints contained in the following pages are likely to be of benefit to carpet cutters, layers, salesmen, and others connected with the house-furnishing business. For those who have been long doing this work, claiming experience, it is a matter of importance to have a system and know just what measurements would be superfluous, how to do the work in the quickest and surest manner - in a word, to become thoroughly versed in their calling. Many of the rules and problems given here are the outcome of a long experience aided by a previous training in drawing and surveying. Years ago it used to be the custom to cut and fit carpets at the house and then return them to the store to be sewed. Some of the large New York stores often take two hundred orders for carpets in a single day. Manifestly it would be impossible to do work in the old way. Now, however, the room or spaces to be carpeted, literally speaking, are brought to the cutter at the store by the measurer, who, if he understands his business, so measures the most irregular room or space that it can be reproduced with perfect accuracy when struck out on the cutting floor of the carpet workroom. It is the aim of the writer to show how this can be done, using the most practical methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or miss