Floor-decorations of various kinds, both in plano & perspective. Adapted to the ornamenting of halls, rooms, summerhouses, &c. in XXIV copper plates. A work intirely new, & as serviceable to gentlemen & workmen by the perspective-views in ye several head-pieces as entertaining to the ladies in colouring them
A 1739 London pattern book of floor designs by John Carwitham, published for gentlemen, workmen and ladies who wished to ornament halls, rooms and summerhouses. Each copper plate pairs a perspective garden or interior vignette above with a flat floor layout below, and the plates are meant to be coloured by hand. A designer can take from them the tessellated geometry of triangles, hexagons and cubes, with the inlaid stone-pattern textures.
