THE CARPET-DEALER'S GUIDE. A Manual of Practical Information ON THE ART OF MEASURING ROOMS AND INCLUDING VARIOUS TOPICS OF INTEREST TO ALL BY JOHN H. MACKE. WITH NUMEROUS PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. CINCINNATI: PRINTED BY CRANSTON & STOWE. CONTENTS. Elementary Properties of Straight Lines, Angles, Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and the Circle and Ellipse defined and illus- trated. PAGE. To find the least number yards of grams 29 and 30, pages 169 to 174. in a bay-window, or any room or space which, owing to the finish of base-boards and moldings, are inaccessible, page 175. To describe the various joints or miters in a circular window or any segment of an arc, page 176. To measure segments of circles, ovals, ellipses, etc., by means of a number of true points, so as to be able to describe the circumference, page 182. To draw the various joints or miters when bordering a room by bisecting the angles, page 188. To mark out or describe elevated platforms as they will appear when flattened out, THIS INTRODUCTION. HIS work is designed to fill a long-felt want in the carpet trade. Great advancement is constantly being made in architecture, and in the construction of modern houses and apartments. The carpet-dealer should keep step with the architect, and, advancing in a corresponding degree, adapt his work to the times. Impressed with the importance of this fact, the writer has prepared the present work. In the representative journals of the carpet industry, within the last few years, there have been published drawings and explanatory remarks on measuring and carpet-cutting that have attracted no little attention. Many wise suggestions have been made on this subject. Believing, however, that the illustrations so far published are capable of great improvement, it is proposed, in this work, to present a concise and practical system for measuring and cutting that will be regarded as a responsible guide by all who are identified with the carpet trade, and an advance on any work of the same character that has heretofore been published. The object is to furnish a few of the most practical problems in plane geometry, not only to benefit the learner, but, it is hoped, to profit also those who |