Abstract: A guide for use in cutting carpet and a method of joining two portions of cut carpet in edge-to-edge relationship has a base formed as a lower portion and an upper portion interengaged through a longitudinal slideway and presenting an upper ramp surface. The upper portion has a longitudinal channel along which a knife blade can pass to cut a carpet portion laid on the ramp. The lower portion has a vertical wall vertically below the channel and against which the cut edge of first carpet portion is located to abut during cutting of the second carpet portion on the ramp so that when the guide is removed the two cut edges will fall into edge-to-edge abutment for joining together.

Abstract: A cutting guide for use in making a cut in a carpet comprises an elongate base including a substantially flat upper surface portion and a channel which extends along the base. The inner side walls of the channel are at an oblique angle relative to the upper surface portion so that when the guide is placed underneath a carpet and a knife drawn along the channel in contact with a side wall, the cut edge thereby produced in the carpet is at an oblique angle to the plane of the carpet. When two such edges of different portions of carpet are abutted together, a tidy unobtrusive seam is produced.